Antiquity

In the years 2258 to 2208 before Christ lived the Chinese Emperor Shun. He reported a legend that he had learned the art, like a bird to fly. In the fourth century BC, Chinese children playing with a toy, the first known model of a helicopter (rotary wing aircraft) can be viewed. The Chinese gyro consisted of a round rod, in the cruciform easily employed bird feathers were inserted. By rotating the round staff between the two palms produce the feathers finally enough buoyancy to the roundabout into the air to rise. Flying was often an attribute of gods and privilege views. Even where gods or transcendental beings with no wings below will include the ability to fly to their properties. In this religious tradition is certainly also the Ascension of Jesus to be seen. The Indian mythology familiar images of flying divine chariot (Vimana), such as those in the epic Ramayana are to be found. The monkey god Hanuman could also fly. For the Aztecs, it was Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, which played an important role, and the Babylonians were lions, bulls and people with wings, dar. Turning around the time documented the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso in his work Metamorphoses, the Greek legend of Daidalos and Ikaros, with homemade wings with wax from bird feathers glued to escape from Crete to Sicily tried. According to legend was the technology actually work, that it does not quite work - Icarus crashed - was much more concerned that he is the sun and the gods too had approached and almost as a punishment for the sacrilege of the wax wings melted . Thus Icarus crashed into the sea and lost his life here.