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1 Wood was used on most early airplanes and is now mainly used on homebuilt airplanes. 2  Wood is lightweight and strong, but it also splinters and requires a lot of maintenance. 3  Aluminum (blended with small quantities of other metals) is used on most types of aircraft because it is lightweight and strong.
Thomas Walker, a portrait-painter from Hull, England publishes a pamphlet on the possibilities of fixed-wing aviation. In it is a design for an airplane that at first appears similar to Cayley's 1799 vision. But what looks like a single wing is actually composed of 8 long slender wings that overlap one another. The control system adjusts the angle of attack of the winglets.