Fly like a bird
Lilou Ruellan Olabarria
Created on October 26, 2023
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People have always been interested in flying airplanes and helicopters but they don’t make you feel like a bird. Leonardo da Vinci and Patrick de Gayardon wanted people to feel like they were really flying.
- born 1452, in Vinci (Italy)
- loved nature as a child and he was very curious
- he wasn't only a painter (sculptor, architect, writer, composer, scientist, mathematician, inventor)
- helped invent things we use nowadays
- Da Vinci worked for a man who worked for this family
- Medici family was a powerful, cultural and artistic family that influenced Da Vinci
- He listened to these people talk when they had their evening meetings (artists, writers, scientists...)
- 1486
- aircraft
- it was supposed to move like a bird
- complicated control system
- only designed, personally never created
Da Vinci was influenced by the people that I'm going to show you now.
- 9th century
- born in Spain, (Al-Andalus)
- he did a lot of things
- first person to fly with a pair of wings
- first time he tried his invention, it didn't work
- 11th century
- English monk
- made wings, attached them to his body and jumped from a high tower
- he flew 200+ meters, but he broke his legs when he landed
All these people from the past influenced inventors in the present.Patrick de Gayardon is one of them.
- born 1960, in Oullins (near Paris)
- parents died when he was 2 years old, lived with grandparents
- studied law at university
- loved sports (tennis, golf, volleyball and skiing)
- started doing base jumping at
- at the end of the 80s he started doing sky surfing
- he jumped from 12700 meters with no respirator + set a record
- some people call him a “flight scientist”
Base jumping
- he designed a wingsuit with fabric between the arms + legs
- he needed 3 years to design the suit
- he tested the suit in October of 1997
- he died in 1998 when a test jump didn’t work (the parachute didn’t open)
Patrick was influenced by the inventors I showed you before and also the people that I'm going to show you now.
- 1912
- French tailor
- He is recognized for jumping off the Eiffel Tower, while he was testing his new parachute
- He died because the parachute didn’t open
- 1930
- American airshow performer
- jumped from a homemade glider at 10,000 metres
- was watched by 100,000 people
- he died because the parachute didn’t open
Many inventors died because they were their own guinea pigs.The idea of flying like a bird is senseless because nowadays you can have the best technology, but if the parachute doesn't open you can die.