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First Flight of a Hot Air Balloon
During this day, human flight was accomplished when the Montgolfier brothers demonstrated the flight of a hot air ballon. The flight took place in France and it flew 8km with the source of energy as a fire producing hot air. -
Gliders Invented
George Cayley became the first man to create a glider on this date. However, this glider was not flawless. The glider that George Cayley invented could not turn but in many years a method was discovered. In the picture, it shows George Cayley. -
Controlled Glider Flight Discovered
On this date, Otto Lilien fro Germany invented and launched a glider. The difference about this glider is that this glider's flight could be controlled. With this discovery, modern day gliders evolved with new gliders like flex-gliders. -
The Wright Brother's invention
The Wright brothers had already invented and tested the incredible and ingenious plane before, but on this historical day, the Wright brothers, for the first time ever, flew a controlled and heavier then air machine. This was the first flight ever and there are many recordings and celebrations of this day. -
First Canadian Designed Plane Flown
John A.D. McCurdy designed the first Canadian plane to be flown. The take-off was at Baddock bay, Cape Breton and it was succesful. -
The Inventing of Helicopters
Igor Sikorsky, the inventor of the very first successful helicopter, Started working on helicopters from 1910 and in 1940 he had created a manmade machine that, unlike planes, could hover in the air. He was not the inventor of helicopters, but as he made the very first, he is also known as the father of helicopters. -
First Woman Aircraft Designer
Elizabeth MacGill was the first woman to be an aircraft designer in the world. Not only that, but Elizabeth MacGill was a Canadian. She designed the Hawker Hurricane Fighter plane at Fort William and she was also the first woman graduate of the University of Toronto. -
First Turbojet Airplane
Turbojets were proved to be much more efficiant. It was built for testing purposes and many it was obvious that jet engines were very much more efficiant. -
First Flight to Travel Faster then Sound
"Bell x1" broke the sound barrier on this day. It was able to travel 700 miled per hour and with the design the military created several war-fitted planes. On this day, Military discoveries improved greatly. -
First Human on the Moon
After years of hard work and painful research, this exciting day for mankind brought us the first person to land on the moon. Neil Armstrong of the United States is famous for this as well as for stating" That's one one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." -
First Canadian On the Moon
Dr. Marc Garneau was chosen to be trained for space and in the year of 1984, he did an eight day mision for Nasa. He also did another ten day mission where he and his crew demonstrated a potential satalite refeulling. He is well known for this. -
Nearer Future
In the near future, scientists expect the next few space flights to be able to fly around where space begins for about ten to fifteen minutes. However, their plans for future further away from us is greater. -
Future
In the futre, scientist think and hope that a variety of things will occur. For one, they hope to be able to create "space hotels" to house tourists for a few days on the moon. However, there are problem that come with this such as weightlessness and gravity problems. Scientist hope to get past these and create more space travel.
