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Leonardo Da Vinci
This Italian is the one of the most famous person ever known for his amazing art. But he was also a great inventer, he is now considered to have been hundreds of years ahead of everyone else in his inventions. Because some of the inventions he had dreamed up were ignored until they were reinvented later in history. -
Geroge Caylay - first concept of the modern aeroplane
He discovered the 4 forces of flight – weight, lift, drag and thrust. He also designed the first successful human glider and the cambered wing or the aerofoil wing. -
Orville Wright
He and his brother made the first heavier-than-air flight in History. They are considered to be the American fathers of Aviation. -
Wilbur
He and his brother made the first heavier-than-air flight in History. They are considered to be the American fathers of Aviation. -
Louis Bleriot
Louis Bleriot was the first person to fly over a large body of water in a heavier-than-air plane, in 1909. -
Amy Johnson
She broke many long distance flying records. -
Sir Frank Whittle
He was a RAF officer from England and built the first prototype of a jet engine. -
Amelia Earhart
She had planned to fly around the world but died in a plane crash whilst flying over the Pacific Ocean. But she still managed to brake the record of flying over the Atlantic Ocean. She also broke other aviation records over her flying career. -
Igor Sikorsky
He was the inventer of the helicopter and he also invented the system in which a machine gun could fire through propeller blades without hitting them in World War One. He was Russian and worked in Russia until the Civil War where he saw no opportunity to help, so he moved to America where he bacame a citizen. -
Chuck Yeager
Was the first man to fly faster than sound. -
Hughes H-4 Hercules aka the Spruce Goose
The air craft was the largest flying boat ever built and has the biggest wingspan and height of any plane. If flew quite well, due to the fact ift was light. Because it was made of plywood. It was planned to be used in World War Two, but didn't get past the prototype stage before the war ended. And was never used commercially because of the new technology in aviation It is now held in the Evergreen Aviation Museum, USA in a good condition. -
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Concorde service time
The Concorde is a super-sonic passenger aircraft. Only 20 of them were ever made and they flew for 27 years, from the 21 January 1976 to the 26 November 2003, before retiring. -
Steve Fossett
He was the first man to fly around the world non-stop in a ballon. He died in 2008 in a plane crash in the Nevada desert. He was a loved American pilot and explorer.
