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Airplanes have streamlined shapes to reduce drag and improve aerodynamics. Fish have streamlined bodies to move efficiently through water. Cars often incorporate streamlined designs to enhance fuel efficiency and reduce wind resistance. Speedboats are built with streamlined hulls to glide smoothly through water. Bullet trains have streamlined profiles to decrease air resistance and achieve high speeds.
Tradesmen in the Spartan state.
Birds are streamlined because all species of birds that ever existed and were NOT streamlined were unable to outfly the streamlined predators, so they got caught and eaten, laid very few eggs, had very few hatchlings, and became extinct. Airplanes are streamlined because that design reduces aerodynamic drag, which directly subtracts from thrust. So a streamlined airplane uses much less fuel than a square airplane does to cover the same distance. Once this fact became generally known, nobody would buy any square airplanes, and the companies that built them went out of business. A lot like the birds.
Their first fully practical airplane was built in 1905. (Their first powered, sustained and controlled airplane was built in 1903.)
George Cayley built the first glider, Clement Ader built the first self powered airplane, and Wilbur & Orville Wright built the first self powered and controllable airplane.
The Wright brother built the first functional airplane and flew it in Kitty Hawk, NC.
Aeroplanes are built streamlined to increase their flight efficiency. A number of other reasons are involved, but this is the main reason.
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The Wright Brothers in the early 1900's, who also built the first airplane
The blimp was invented before the airplane. In 1852 Henri Giffard successfully built the first powered airship and in 1903 The Wright brothers successfully built the first powered airplane.