Leonardo da Vinci made the first real studies of flight in the 1480s. He had over 100 drawings that illustrated his theories on flight. The Ornithopter flying machine was never actually created. It was a design that Leonardo da Vinci created to show how man could fly. The modern-day helicopter is based on this concept. George Cayley worked to discover a way that man could fly. He designed many different versions of gliders that used the movements of the body to control. A young boy, whose name is not known, was the first to fly one of his gliders. The modern age of powered flight began in 1903 after Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first sustained, powered flight on December 17 in a plane. This twelve-second flight led to the development of the first practical airplane in 1905 and launched worldwide efforts to build better flying machines. The human’s feat to flying has seen many small steps in the making. Checkout the document to view some earliest but not so successful invention patents in the development of aircrafts. #aviation #aircrafts #historyofflying #intellectualproperty #IPR #patents #boeing #airbus #lockheedmartin #Leonardo #Bombardier #uac #ipconsulting #booleanipconsulting