Labels:text | human face | person | man | book OCR: A B GEORGE CAYLEY 1773-1857 D E T HE AIRLINER WING, with its F specially-shaped control G surfaces, owes a great deal to the H pioneering work of the English I designer George Cayley. K In the late 18th century, it was L thought that the future of flight lay M with ligh ter- than-air craft, such as N balloons. Cayley thought otherwise. comes from the passage of air over a He was the first man to lay down flat, sloping surface. In 1853, at the P the scientific foundations of flight age of 80, he built a full-sized glider R and airplane wings. which carried his terrified coachman S After experimenting with kites 1,650 feet (500 m) across a valley in T and gliders, Cayley realized that lift Scarborough, England. 11 Cayley is also famous for inventing caterpillar tracks, the belts W X that are ...
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