it was propelled by a thrust or a jet engine or propeller . airplanes come in a variety of sizes..was first made by wrist brothers.Many stories from antiquity involve flight, such as the greekland of vernama and , and the in ancient wasreputed to have designed and built the first artificial, self-propelled flying device, a bird-shaped model propelled by a jet of what was probably steam, said to have flown some 200 m (660 ft). This machine may have been suspended for its flight.