The First Flight On Another World Wasn’t on Mars. It Was on Venus, 36 Years Ago
Cool as it is, Ingenuity does not mark the dawn of extraterrestrial aviation.
By Jay Gallentine
AIRSPACEMAG.COM
APRIL 20, 2021
As I said, Ingenuity marks the first aerodynamic flight on another planet. In other words, a flight in which the lift is generated by atmospheric flow over a wing or propeller.
A ballon flight would be “aerostatic” (analogous to hydrostatic), in which the lift is generated by displacement of a fluid, rather than the flow of a fluid.