Before the Airplane: Failed Flying Machines and Early Experiments
Long before airplanes became reliable machines that could cross oceans and continents, flight was a dangerous idea filled with uncertainty, broken bones, and crushed dreams. Early flying machines were not born from neat equations or proven aerodynamic rules. They emerged from imagination, trial and error, and a deep human desire to escape gravity. Many of the earliest attempts at flight failed spectacularly, and some ended tragically, yet each failure pushed humanity closer to understanding how flight truly worked.
