Andrew To May 12th, 2012 Language Arts 7 Miss Patrice Murphy

Research Report First Draft

Have you ever dreamed of flying up high in the sky, exploring the unlimited world around you, where many incredible adventures wait for you to discover? Nowadays, all you need to do is board a flight on an Airbus, or a Boeing, and start your journey. In this essay, I will explain to you why the airplane is one of the best inventions ever created. The airplane was successfully invented and flown by the Wright Brothers, on December 17th, 1905. Each part of the airplane has a different shape, in order to depart, arrive, and carry hundred of passengers through the vast sky safe and sound. The two wings of an aircraft are built in the shape of an airfoil, which is designed to cause air moving below at a higher speed and the air moving above at a lower speed. This makes the air below to create more pressure and force the airplane to take off easily. The speed breaks, located on two sides of the wings, help the airplane to slow down the winds speed toward them, when it reaches the ground for landing. Many airplanes manufacturer, such as Airbus, Boeing, Fokker, ATR, etc, used the Wright Brothers airplane as their sample, upgraded its equipment to a premium product, in order to carry

more passengers, as well as carry them longer distance nonstop. The King and Queen of Airplanes are the A380-800 manufactured by Airbus, and B747-400 by Boeing, with a massive capacity to hold up to 525 passengers, in a comfortable three-class figuration, First, Business, and Economy. It can carry passengers to fly far as 8,300 nautical miles nonstop. The Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright, are the fathers of the airplanes. They got the ideas of inventing an airplane through when they saw birds fly freely in the sky. They used small kite to start with their experiment, then gliders. On December 17th, 1903, at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, the Wright Brothers have assembled a flying machine successfully with a propeller and an engine. Together, they flew through the sky, covering 120 feet in 12 seconds. From a bicycle merchant, they have turned into a great inventor, which was honoured and commemorating throughout the history. The airplane is such a fabulous invention. With the average speed of 500 miles per hour, thanks to the airplanes, we can travel through any part of the globe just for a few hours. The airplane helps businessmen, businesswomen, travelled to their destinations in a shorter time in luxurious suites, in order to talk about their contracts, help a hand to improve the society better, as well as help them feel comfortable just as same as staying at their home. The airplanes help voyagers have a wonderful journey, through many parts of the world, which no one have ever discovered in a safe and reliable way. Nowadays, many low-cost carriers, such as AirAsia, Jetstar, Tiger Airways, have opened to help people fulfill their dream of flying on the sky for a cheaper price. Therefore, the airplane is such a brilliant invention.

In general, the airplane has such a significant impact to the human race around the globe. Without the airplane, I think that there are not many successful businessmen, businesswomen, as well as, many people will not have such diverse knowledge of different places, different heritages, in different parts of the world. As records from the busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, have shown us, in average, there are at least 469 flights landed every day at this airport, carried nearly 250 thousand passengers every day. Without the invention of the airplane, many things got done difficulty.

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