In the past, people could never have imagined that a human could ever fly, so how could humans be able to fly without wings? The whole idea of ​​flying seemed to be a crazy and dangerous idea, and some had even tried to make wings like bird wings to fly with them, but those attempts were unsuccessful, and the owners were subjected to severe ridicule.

But with the development that took place in the century after the Industrial Revolution and the world was filled with many discoveries and new inventions, the idea came back up again, and some tried to break the old boundaries, so many inventors tried to create a plane, including Orville and Wu Yelbor Wright, known as the Wright Brothers.

But before the plane, humans succeeded in flying through balloons, and the first successful flight attempt was made with the balloon during the First World War, and the balloon was based on the idea of ​​floating over the air as ships float above water, but by filling a large balloon or several balloons with less dense gas From the air, the balloon was lifted up, and the most used gas at the beginning was helium and nitrogen, which was considered dangerous because it is flammable, and hydrogen actually caused several accidents, such as the Hindenburg disaster.

Scientists were still looking for a safer way to fly using engines, but most of the inventors of aircraft at that time were impulsive, so most of these planes crashed immediately before they rose, and not even their inventors knew the causes of the crash, but the Wright brothers were more scientific and methodical.

The Wright brothers began to test their ideas first in small models before they built the actual plane. They also took notes on the first models, then developed hypotheses or guesses, and then carried out more experiments to ensure the correctness of their hypotheses and this is known as (the scientific method in Thinking), for example the Wright brothers constructed an air tunnel to compare the shapes of a suitable plane wing.

This was by attaching an old store fan to a 6-foot wooden box, and they blew air into several miniature wing models with different but accurate measurements, and in the end they came up with a number of successful measurements of the plane's wing, and the brothers also made countless kites as well as gliders. To test the various designs of the aircraft, they also successfully studied and analyzed the movements of birds.

In the end, the Wright brothers felt that they were ready to test their plane, but wanted to try it out in the right place, and wrote a meteorological request in the United States, and Kitty Hawk told them that North Carolina is the ideal place to test because of the strong winds in it, the mountainous terrain and also sand dunes so that it does not A disaster occurs if the plane crashes.
The brothers tested the larger glider they built, but it was without an engine, and relied only on winds to move it, and then they began adding a movable tail, twin propellers and wires to guide the wings, and a petrol engine.

Finally, on December 17, 1903 AD, the experiment of the "first plane" began on the sands of Kitty Hawk, and the weight of the plane was more than 600 pounds, and the length of the wing was 40 feet. Indeed, for the first time in history, a motorized plane succeeded from the ground for twelve seconds and traveled for a distance of 120 feet. Only, the Wright brothers continued to improve the prototype of the plane and in doing so they changed the form of transportation in the world forever.

After only 10 years after the experience of the Wright brothers, the first official flight to transport passengers was launched by the Russian Sikorsky Ilya Muromets passenger plane, and it was a luxurious plane equipped with a passenger salon, lounge, bedroom, bathroom, lighting and electric heating, and the first flight of the Iliya was on December 10, 1913. A flight to review the plane carrying 16 passengers.

Also documented use in wars for the first time during the war was in the First World War, but it was a light wooden plane equipped with a light machine gun only, and it was used on a very small scale and almost worthless, and the attempt to develop warplanes remained in the period between the two scientific wars, but it was on Small range, but in World War II aircraft were used as a decisive weapon in the battles, and Germany was superior in the field of war aviation, as it was famous for its "Miss Schmidt" fighter, and the work on developing war aviation continued greatly during the war period.