Tatiana's timeline

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
06/02/1260	Roger Bacon	Roger Bacon is aFranciscan monk in England. He suggested that a person could sit in the middle of an "engine for flying." That wuld move the artificial wings made to beat the air.
06/02/1500	Leonardo da Vinci	Leonardo da Vinciis from Italy. He drew plans and pictures of a human-powered flight. In these plans, they included an "ornithopter". an ornithopter is attached to a pilot's back. The pilot's back has two large flaps with a helicopter. He also invented and created the parachute.
11/21/1783	Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier	Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier are brothers from France. They tested their hot-air balloon through an 8-km flight across Paris. They found out that the hot-air balloon can hold two people.
06/02/1853	Sir George Caycley	Sir George Caycley is a pioneer from England have studied animal flight and disigned a monoplane glider to carry humans for years. About forty years later he buld and created a model big enough to carry a small boy or girl severel meters above and off the ground. In 1853 he invented a glider to carry an adult.
06/03/1891	Otto Lilienthal	Otto Lilienthal was from Germany. He was the first heavier-than-air pilot. Most of the avaitors were more into only building flying objects, not how to fly them. Otto Lilienthal had developed ways to control glider flight. Up on a hill, he launched a glider fwhose flight could be controlled by shifting his weight.
12/17/1903	Orville and Wibur	The American Wright Flyer (made by Orville and Wilbur) made the first succesful powered flight. The Flyer 1 had two 12 meter-wings on each side of the fuselage. They chose to test their Flyer 1 at Kitty Hawk. They chose this place because of it's strong winds. The first time they tried this it lasted for about 12 s and travelled a distance of about 36.5 meters.
06/03/2011	Chuck Yeager	Chuck Yeager is from the United States and he broke the sound barrier by flying faster than the speed of sound. At the time, it was not known that if an aircraft could fly faster than the speed of sound traveling. Or if a pilot could survive of that speed. When Chuck Yeager continued to fly faster on new aircrafts, he set a new airspeed record more than twice.