Live Breaking News & Updates on University Of Montana Flight Laboratory

December 17th, 2020, 6:00AM
/ BY
Erin Malsbury
Tens of millions of years of bird evolution guided some of the most important elements of human-powered flight. (Pixabay)
On December 17 in 1903, the Wright brothers achieved what humans had dreamed about since the earliest days of our species: soaring through the air. For millennia, visionaries watched birds take wing and wondered how they might do the same. Notes and inspiration from bird flight were integral in helping people finally achieve the goal, but our version of flying as well as how we got there contrasts starkly with that of birds.
While human flight came about through intense focus on a singular goal, flight in birds evolved incrementally over millions of years without direction. The path to modern birds was full of forks, twists and dead-ends. ....

Erin Malsbury , Peter Jakab , Wilbur Wright , Matthew Carrano , Otto Lilienthal , Helen James , Smithsonian National , Space Museum , Smithsonian Institution , University Of Montana Flight Laboratory , Smithsonian National Museum Of Natural History , How We Lifted Flight , National Museum , Kenneth Dial , National Air , Natural History , Deep Time , வில்பர் ரைட் , மேத்யூ கார்ரானோ , ஒட்தோ லிலிஎந்தல் , ஹெலன் ஜேம்ஸ் , ஸ்மித்சோனியன் தேசிய , இடம் அருங்காட்சியகம் , ஸ்மித்சோனியன் நிறுவனம் , பல்கலைக்கழகம் ஆஃப் மஂட்யாந விமானம் ஆய்வகம் , ஸ்மித்சோனியன் தேசிய அருங்காட்சியகம் ஆஃப் இயற்கை வரலாறு ,