Before the Concorde even began regular flights, protests over its sound levels caused the U.S. and many other countries to ban overland commercial supersonic flight. Those restrictions have stood for Keep reading
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Bell’s Powered Kite
Inventor Alexander Graham Bell is best known for the telephone but also made many contributions to early aeronautics. This man-carrying kite, the Cygnet III, was a powered kite with a Keep reading