Ka-Planes n’ Kopters Biggest Sales Event Ever!
Lowest Prices in the World!
You-Snooze-You-Lose
20% off everything in stock including sale items (min order $20)
Recapitalization is required in order for us to obtain the right products at the right time. We will sell existing stock at progressively larger discounts and that will allow us to re-procure the right products. We should be complete with the phase 1 reduction in the April timeframe. When we are out of a product, it will not show on the website until the new procurement.
Enjoy the savings and stock up on products and spares!!!
Upon checkout use coupon code......recap......(all lower case)
Christinaand The staff will ensure your shipment is released pronto.
(Yes, we will be getting in some new products/stock in the interim)
We love flying and for the sake of the hobby, we purchased some of our favorite
products that are easy to learn and easy to fly and we are selling them at very reasonable prices. There are more favorites we have mind, so check in often. We do not plan to sell loads and loads of planes and helicopters, just our specifically chosen ones. There is a substantial list of products we have tested and will not carry due to inadequate quality and control processes.
LEONARDO DAVINCI
"Design for a Flying Machine"
Leonardo DaVinci made the first real studies of flight in the 1480's. He had over 100 drawings that illustrated his theories on flight.
Hewas fascinated by the phenomenon of flight, Leonardo produced detailed studies of the flight of birds, and plans for several flying machines, including a helicopter powered by four men (which would not have worked since the body of the craft would have rotated) and a light hang glider which could have flown. On January 3, 1496 he unsuccessfully tested a flying machine he had constructed.
The ornithopter flying machine was never actually created. It was a design that Leonardo DaVinci made to illustrate how man could fly. Some experts feel that the modern day helicopter was inspired by DaVinci's concept.
Orville and Wilbur Wright.
"In 1878, when Orville and Wilbur were ages 7 and 11, their father brought them a toy "helicopter." It was based on an invention by French aeronautical pioneer Alphonse Penaud. Made of cork, bamboo, and paper, with a rubber band to twirl its twin blades, it was a little bigger than an adult's hand. They later said this sparked their interest in flight. During the next few years, Wilbur and Orville tried to build these themselves, but the bigger they made them the less well they flew. Somewhat discouraged, the brothers turned to kites."
Aviation History Excerpt from wright-house.com/wright-brothers.
First flight (controlled power), December 17, 1903. Photo by John T. Daniels of the Kill Devil Hills Life Saving Station, using Orville's tripod-mounted camera.
In 1906, two brothers, Jacques and Louis Breguet, began experimenting with airfoils for helicopters and in 1907, those experiments resulted in the Gyroplane No.1. Although there is some discrepancy about the dates, sometime between 14 August and 29 September 1907, the Gyroplane No. 1 lifted its pilot up into the air about two feet (0.6 meters) for a minute. However, the Gyroplane No. 1 proved to be extremely unsteady and required a man at each corner of the airframe to hold it steady. For this reason, the flights of the Gyroplane No. 1 are considered to be the first manned flight of a helicopter, but not a free or untethered flight. That same year, fellow French inventor Paul Cornu designed and built a helicopter that used two 20-foot (6-meter) counter-rotating rotors driven by a 24-hp (18-kW) Antoinette engine. On November 13, 1907, it lifted its inventor to 1 foot (0.3 meters) and remained aloft for 20 seconds. Although this flight was smaller in its achievement than that of the Breguet brothers, it was greater in accomplishment being that it was the first true free flight with a pilot. The Cornu helicopter would achieve a height of nearly 2 meters but also proved to be unstable and was abandoned after only a few flights.
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