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- Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
32: ...nted event was the first flight verified by the [[Aero-Club De France]] of a powered heavier-than-air ma...
52: ...evidence. In [[January]] [[1906]] people in the [[Aero Club of France]]'s meeting are stunned by the unp...
56: ...st effective heavier-than-air flight is most commonly assigned to the [[Wright brothers]] for their fl...
58: ...s in their [[1904]] European patent filings certainly helped many airplane developers in succeeding ye...
62: ... their involvement with Dumont. How partial the [[Aero-Club De France]] was to Santos-Dumont is a matter... - Bicycle (44267 bytes)
1: ...ebar and thin tires and wheels for efficiency and aerodynamics]]
17: ...at the rider could push more firmly, and further enlarged the front wheel to increase the potential fo...
19: ...arder ride on the poor road surfaces of the time unlike the Ordinaries, whose larger wheels smoothed o...
23: ...were also developed during these years, but were only slowly adopted by casual riders. By the turn of...
27: ...emained a mainstay of transportation, its design only gradually changing to incorporate hand-operated ... - Gliding (16947 bytes)
2: ...tive [[sport]] where individuals fly un-powered [[aeroplane]]s known as [[glider]]s or [[sailplane]]s. ...
7: ...nal abilities. There are also glider [[aerobatic|aerobatics]] competitions.
12: ... Aviation]]). However, the ''sport'' of gliding only emerged after the [[World War I|First World War]...
17: ...thus gaining [[potential energy]]. The most commonly used rising masses of air are [[thermal]]s (updr...
19: ... by aircraft, and dynamic soaring is a technique only really useful to birds, notably to the [[albatro... - Contrail (4281 bytes)
17: ... (which is why [[rain]] occurs) and although most aero-engines are thought of as running on a fuel such ...
23: In [[1998]], [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration|NASA]] scientists... - Aeronautics (946 bytes)
3: '''Aeronautics''' is the science and practice of aerial l...
6: *[[Aerostation]] — the flying of lighter than air a...
9: ...ghter-than-air vehicle (i.e., someone involved in aerostation). As such, the two terms do not relate to ...
12: *[[Aerostation]]
15: *[[Aerodyne]]
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