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Designed first successful human glider. Discovered the four aerodynamic forces of flight: weight, lift, drag, thrust; and cambered wings, basis for the design of the modern aeroplane. Sir George Cayley, [1] 6th Baronet (27 December 1773 – 15 December 1857) [2] was an English engineer, inventor, and aviator.
He wrote of his glider design: “It was beautiful to see this noble white bird sailing majestically from the top of a hill to any given point of the plain below it with perfect steadiness and safety.” Cayley lived in a great age for engineers, both in Britain and abroad.
Sir George Cayley was an English pioneer of aerial navigation and aeronautical engineering and designer of the first successful glider to carry a human being aloft. Fascinated by flight since childhood, Cayley conducted a variety of tests and experiments intended to explore aerodynamic principles.
Cayley Glider BAPC.89. Sir George Cayley (1773-1857) was first to design an aerofoil and one of his flying machines made the world’s first manned heavier-than-air flight at Brompton Dale, near Scarborough, in 1849. This was more than 54 years before the Wright brothers made the first powered flight from Kitty Hawk Sands in the USA on 17 ...
Show image caption. This faithful recreation of Sir George Cayley's pioneering glider, "The Governable Parachute", was built for an Anglia television documentary which aimed to prove...
George Cayley's 1849 glider. He carried a young boy aloft in this aircraft. Four years later, in 1853 and fifty years before the first powered flight was made at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Cayley built a triplane glider (a glider with three horizontal wing structures) that carried his coachman 900 feet (275 meters) across Brompton Dale in the ...
Sep 8, 2010 · Cayley constructed increasingly sophisticated model flying machines, culminating in a full-scale glider, which was flown in 1853 by his grandson, George. “Cayley had completed his...
