Abbas Ibn Firnas! Father Of Aviation! Engr Dr Naila Hina

 Ibn e Farnas was a very creative engineer and inventor who successfully constructed the first successful flying machine. 

 IBN FIRNAS’ KEEN INTEREST in science and technology led him to invent water-powered clocks. The 9th-century polymath and engineer dared to make heavier-than-air machine flight a thousand years before motorised aeroplanes were invented. –––––––– 

ABBAS IBN FIRNAS: THE first human to fly. UFUK NECAT TASCI 26 MAY 2020 

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THE 9th-century polymath and engineer dared to make heavier-than-air machine flight a thousand years before motorised aeroplanes were invented. The Wright brothers may have invented the first motorised aircraft, but the 9th-century engineer Abbas Ibn

Firnas is considered to be the first human to fly with the help of a pair of wings built of silk, wood and real feathers. 

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 ACCORDING TO HISTORIANS, when Ibn Firnas was between the age of 65 and 70, he jumped off a cliff from Yemen’s Jabal Al-Arus mountain and glided in the air, staying in flight for at least ’10 minutes. The short flight left him both injured and disappointed. He realised that because he had neglected the mechanics of landing, he couldn’t balance his flight in the air and ended up crash landing. –––––––– 

IBN FIRNAS LIVED FOR another 12 years. He realised that slow landing is achieved via the collaborative work between tail and wings, a conclusion he reached after decades of studies of bird flight and their landings. It is Firnas who could successfully claim to be behind the theory that went on to create the ornithopter, an aircraft that mimics birds and flies by flapping its wings. His flying machine diagrams went on to become the cornerstones of aviation engineering in the late 20th century. –––––––– HE ALSO EXPERIMENTED with sand and quartz crystals In order to understand the nature of these properties. Many historians credit him for making transparent glass with these materials. He allegedly was also the pioneer behind the famous Andalusian glasses, which are still in demand and use today. The visually challenged benefited from him,

too, as he is credited with making lenses which helped with reading. –––––––– IBN FIRNAS IS OF BERBER descent. His name’s root is Afernas, which is now a common and widespread name heard in both Morocco and Algeria today. –––––––– SEVERAL AIRPORTS, BRIDGES, hills, parks, avenues and scientific bodies have been named after him, especially in Muslim-majority countries. A statue of him exists near Baghdad Airport and the bridge over the Guadalquivir river in Cordoba, Spain, is also named after him. He died sometime between 890 and 895 AD and many historians say his death may have been hastened by his injury.