This is a short (and mostly made up) history of flight:
Birds were the first creatures to fly. Human flight started when a caveman flapped his arms around and yelled “Look! I’m flying!” Of course, he wasn’t but he inspired the other cavemen. Soon they all had ideas about how they could actually fly. They tried putting feathers on their arms but that didn’t work so they tamed a bird to study how it flew. They didn’t work much out but they discovered the bird was good at hunting, so they trained it to hunt other birds for them. A bit later, there was a big fight between two caveman tribes and the first human flew. In fact, he was thrown off a cliff into a shark’s mouth. The fight finally ended when a giant bird landed in the clearing. A caveman tried to ride it but it ate him and flew away. After a few more cavemen were eaten, the cavemen decided these birds were untamable.
A long time later, paper was invented and a smart kid made the first paper plane. Unfortunately, it hit someone in the back of the head. We don’t know if it was an accident or on purpose, but he was grounded anyway and the plane was confiscated. However, his parents were amazed at how it worked and gave it to the government, who studied it. The government made a giant paper plane and launched it with three people on it. However, the people were too heavy and it crashed a few metres away. A few years later, the government made a working plane, but it was only a remote control plane. They couldn’t design a plane that could hold the weight of a human. Soon, remote control planes and helicopters were everywhere but humans remained on the ground. But then someone realised they were using the wrong materials. They were using paper and plastic to make planes but they hadn’t tried metal yet.
He told the government, who made lots of tin planes until everyone yelled, “NO! USE A DIFFERENT METAL!” Eventually, iron and steel planes were made and they worked. Finally, people were able to fly. These iron and steel planes eventually became the planes we see today.
The End
