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What is a hurricane?

The word "hurricane" in the language of one of the tribes of American Indians means the name of the deity of the wind. These are giant air vortices. Hurricanes occur mainly in the period from August to October over the expanses of tropical seas. As a rule, they move from the south or southwest towards the East Coast of the United States, are up to 2000 m in diameter, bring floods, destruction and loss of life.

Now hurricanes are sometimes called storms and storms in any part of the planet.

Author: Mendeleev V.A.

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Who invented the airplane?

Sometimes a discovery begins with an "idea". A person has an idea that people need some kind of mechanism or product, and he begins to "invent" it.

But as for the airplane, or, as they used to say, the airplane, this idea was one of the oldest and most secret for a person. The idea of flying has captivated man since antiquity. One of the most famous legends tells about Icarus, who attached wings to his body with wax and took off! However, as he approached the Sun, the wax melted and Icarus fell and died. But the dream remained. Icarus is a symbol of human striving for new heights.

Leonardo da Vinci, who was not only a great artist, but also an inventor, left behind sketches of an aircraft that used the muscular strength of a person. There were other dreamers who dreamed of the idea of an airplane hundreds of years ago!

The earliest aircraft did not have their own power. They were, in fact, giant kites or gliders. During the XNUMXth century, many experiments were carried out with them.

But no one has succeeded in making a heavier-than-air aircraft with its own power. In fact, it was problematic - is it possible to build such an apparatus at all. The first to prove that this could be done was Professor Samuel Langley of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. He built two flying machines, each 3,5 meters wide and 4,5 meters long, powered by a 1,5 horsepower steam engine. In 1896, these two models made successful flights. However, a test flight of Langley's life-sized aircraft ended in failure: it crashed on October 7, 1903.

On December 17 of the same year, the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright managed to make a successful flight in an aircraft heavier than air with its own power. In Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they made one flight of 30 meters in 12 seconds and the second of 260 meters in 59 seconds. Thus was born the airplane, or plane!

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