ABSTRACT
Abiplane is an airplane with twosets of wings, one above theother. The biplane was developed from the box kite, which was invented by an Australian named Lawrence Hargrave in 1893.
Before the days of powered flight, aviation pioneers, such as Otto Lilienthal in Germany and Octave Chanute in the United States, flew biplane hang gliders. They experimented with how to control an aircraft carrying a human pilot with no engine. The first controlled powered flight, in 1903, was made by a biplane, the Wright brothers’ Flyer. The first powered flight in Europe was also made by a biplane, this time flown by a Brazilian pilot called Alberto SantosDumont, in 1906.
