Was it the courage and determination of the Wright Brothers in collaboration with Alcock and Brown that led to the dawn of powered flight, and our window to the Cosmos!? Well, more or less, anyway!
2007-02-02 06:28:56 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I don't think it the "right-stuff" the Wright Brothers had was courage and determination as much as it was prudence and patience.
They took their time to build a machine that would actually fly and tested their design with gliders in relatively safe environments so they were able to make advancements and survive to fly another day until they finally succeeded, unlike many of their predecessors who took untested machines over cliffs and died before they could advance their initial designs.
2007-02-02 06:59:57 · answer #1 · answered by chimpus_incompetus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think powered flight has much to do with our window on the cosmos. Powered flight is a faster way to travel on the Earth, but it is Robert Goddard and other rocket pioneers who gave us space flight, and it is astronomers using telescopes that gave us a window on the cosmos.
2007-02-02 06:32:07 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋