The History of Flight

We human beings have always been fascinated by the concept of the possibility of lifting things up into the air. The first record of a flying object was in 200 BCE in China. The Chinese used kite to judge the distance they had to tunnel towards enemy bases. After them we skip forward about a millennium and a half, and on our journey there, we eat a slice o' π and we jump out of reality into the purely theoretical. Welcome to Venice, in the 15th century CE. We are in Leonardo Da Vinci's workshop looking over his shoulder a his many designs of his "flying machines" which, quite contrary to what Mary Pope Osborn believes, were never constructed (On the topic of Mary Pope Osborn; 1) Morgan Le Fay is an EVIL Sorceress, not a nice magical librarian. 2) Merlin is an Evil wizard who is the son of the devil, not a jolly wizard with a long beard. 3) There are at least 2 factual mistakes in each book) After that we get back to reaility in the 18th century. We are currently in a hot air balloon looking over the battle of St. Petersburg. Now we move onto Gilders, then basic airplanes then we have propeller planes, than cargo planes, then fighter planes, and then stealth bombers.