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the stubborn argument that air, despite its objections, can be stood upon.
means The science and practice of designing, building, and flying aircraft and other machines that move through the air.
from Stitched together from Greek roots: aēr, "air," plus nautēs, "sailor" (from naus, "ship") — literally "air-sailing." The naut- piece is the same seafaring word that gives us nautical and astronaut. The term arrived alongside the early balloon and flight enthusiasts, who borrowed the vocabulary of the sea because sailing the sky felt like the nearest thing they knew — and indeed the first such pioneers were often called aeronauts.
- Word origin
- From Greek for air sailor, like a sky mariner
- Bernoulli myth
- Wings fly mostly by shoving air downward
- Older than planes
- Hot air balloons flew 120 years before Wright brothers
- Bumblebee paradox
- Old math wrongly claimed bees cannot fly
- Sound barrier
- Broken in 1947 by a man with broken ribs
wright brothers first flight — orville and wilbur wright flew 120 feet at kitty hawk, north carolina on december 17, 1903
concorde supersonic jet — british-french airliner that crossed atlantic at mach 2.04, operated 1969-2003
apollo 11 lunar module — neil armstrong and buzz aldrin landed on the moon july 20, 1969 using aeronautical design
spaceshiptwo virgin galactic — richard branson's suborbital spaceplane reached edge of space on july 11, 2023