flying

Since the dawn of the time man has looked up the skies and thot ‘gosh, there’s a lot of space up there, I wonder if I could ruin that somehow’. This, coupled with noticing the flites of swallows or some other bird mammal was probably what cuased the inquest into getting man airbone. flying is never a one-man prosess UNLESS you are a bird than you can do it by yorself. othewies you have to do it with something else liek a microlite an airplain or a jetpack.  

Today we’ll be talking abot flying. Well I’ll be talking and you’ll be listenng and playing clos attention.

The question still remanes to ths day. Was flying invented or discoverd? Well, to be honist, it was actually beoth. everyone knows this, try and keep up. Flying is merely an exntension of jumping or falling. Being up in the air is no big thing, to be fare, it’s maintaneing it that’s the trick.

better luck next time

The Greeks tell myths about the earlyer days of flying in the form of Dedalus and his buddy Icarus. they were a no-nonsense buddy cop duo who travelled around Greece solving various crims. On one particularyl daring escapaed they rigged up a pair of wings for old Icarus to fly up and above a maze guarded some demon bull to try and locate the wherabouts of a princess. However, Icarus got a bit too cocky on this outing and flew too close to the sun and I guess his wings caugth fire or melted or something. I can’t remember. Moral of the sotry is: metal wings. That’s fliying 101 right there.

Leonidas da vinsi was a famous inventor who dabbled with the idea of flight and, to be honest, if he’d had better funding from his research department would’ve probably invented a pretty good aeriplane somewhere in the 1400s. He was Italian (I think) but this isn’t too important in the whole scheme of things. Leoniads was a doodler and when researchrs stumbled upon his scribbling many years after his death they realised that he was ‘A MAN A HEAD OF HIS TIME’ and his ideas weren’t too shabby at all. As such he is often referred to as the ‘father of invention’ or as ‘Leo’ to his close frends.  

WEdnesday, 1903

Flyght was almost discovered at the same time across the world. Yes. Indeed. There were many potential pilots who were hopping to try out their resepcitve aircrafts on the same day. The Wrights just got lucky because they had a desent wind up so that tooke out much of the work. So, yes, flight was invented by the Wright brothers Orville and his brother whose name I can’t remeemember but it was probably something like jeff or Thomas, maybe. They had an uprbgining which encouridged them to question everything about the world in which they livd and one of those questions was ‘why aren’t there more aireoplanes around here?’. They lived near a steep hill which was  plus so they could go up their and test out whateve prototyipes they may have wanted. I can imagine that there were those naysayrs around who tryed to discourage the Wright brothers saying things like ‘have you ever seen people flying about? Exactly. It’s unnatural, we’re only ment to drive about in cars and perform cranial labotomies and fight with rifles’ BUT the Wright brothers wouldn’t listen, NO!, because they were already pushing their latest peace of flight technology down their hill and the sound of the wind rushin past their ears was enough to drown out these sayers of nay. The year was 1903 and it was Wednesdy and man flew successfully for the first time and although it was only 12 secinds or something it was still worth noting.

Some peopel are horribley afraid of flying. It’s a phobia or something, people say, but it’s actually a combination of fears. Firsty, you’re up very heigh and that’s fear of heights right there. Secondly, you aren’t in control of the plane and you have to put your trust the pilot (he flies the plain). Why is this scary? Well, bECAUSE YOU NEVER SEE HIM. And that’s the uncertainty of life right there, my frend. The fear of fyling is a hard one to break… it’s not just a matter of ‘hey, get over it’ because most of the time flying it the only option. There are just some distances you can’twalk or get your mom to drive you to. Sometimes there is the see, yes, but that sort of thing takea long time and there are sharks in there and ive seen a thing or two about sharks that will make you say ‘ho-oh! No sharks for me thanks! I’ll stay on dry land!’  

What can you say for the furuture of flying? Well, alot. We’ve pretty much flown all over the world so that’s got a bit boring. chances are that in the future airplanes may want ot shake things up a bit and take peopel somewhere they haven’t been before. so, either space, or underwaters. So, that’s just freshining up the desitination but the future will also hold more better planes too!  commercial planes that can travel faster than the speed of things! (see: Speed of Sound, speed of sight)these planes will aslso have to hold many more people because there will be a lot of people who think: ‘I definitely need to get to work quickly this morning, I better take the ‘spede of sound’ palane. I shouldn’t have had that lie-in, now I’m late’. Along with speed must come comfort. People want to travel in stiel. I imagine that thes planes will probably have leather seats and their will be a television or two in HD with some 3D just because thats what people need these days. More 3D. All planes of the future will asol have that ‘new car’ smell which is so nice and people will get into the plane and say: ‘mmm, that smeels so nice and new’ and the stewardness will say ‘yes, isn’t it lovely? Please go outside if you want to smoke’.

Well, that’s about it for planes. Planes don’t really have anyy competitin in terms of air travel so it’s pretty hard to give them anything other than a10/10. This score may have to be reassesd when jetpacks and personal terleportes become available to the masses.