Flying machines (Manuel Bona)

The history of flying began in the V century when the first flying object made by humans appeared, it was the kite.
In the XIII century the English monk Roger Bacon, came to the conclusion that the air could bear one machine as the water bears a boat.
Leonardo di Ser Pierdo da Vinci (better known as Leonardo da Vinci) was the man of the Renaissance by excellence. The imagination of Leonardo took him to design a lot of witty machines, from military machines to scientific instruments, or flying machines.

THE AERIAL SCREW OF DA VINCI

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Known as the first prototype of the helicopter, practised by the study said that if in a solid body, there is one object in it´s interior, this objectwould go up. The machine is done by a screw of ten meters of diameter done by a structure of reeds covered by strached linen and reinforced with a metalic edge.


FLYING MACHINE OF DA VINCI

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The imagination of Da Vinci was awesome for this ideas about flying machines, including the gliders equipped by folding wings.
This housing oppened model, equipped with sits and controllers for the pilot, established the funds of the aerial technology. Cranks, pulleys, ropes and toothed wheels were as the wings and joints of the bats.They didn´t fly, they glided.It was like a hang-glider.