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Module 1 Introduction To Flight
This document provides an introduction to key concepts in flight, including: - Definitions of important aerospace terms like aerodynamics, aeronautics, airfoil, and thrust. - A brief history of human flight attempts from Daedalus and Icarus in Greek myth to the first hot air balloon flight by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783. - Explanations of principles like Bernoulli's principle of fluid dynamics and Newton's three laws of motion as they apply to the forces that allow for flight. - Descriptions of key flight concepts such as the relative wind, the four forces of flight, and the three axes of an airplane.
