humans and flight

Flying Humans

The ability to fly has always been part of the human psyche and imagination. From the earliest civilizations of the Greeks and Egyptians, to the Roman and Chinese and later civilizations, flying has always enthralled humanity. Man has been able to walk, climb, swim, run, and jump just like any other animal, but the ability to fly had always until the twentieth century eluded him as Bayla Singer explains “Human flight is not a simple matter of science and technology. It is a continuing epic of dreams and obsession, of yearning and striving to harness the intellect in the service of the emotions.” The advancement of technology and the creation of the plane by the Wright brothers changed fantasy into reality, Humans denied through biology and nature to be creatures of the land, had through his own intellect and dreams created out of the elements a machine that could give him the ability to fly and be master of not only land but now also the sky. Within decades Man wa...