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Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines - with over 100 drawings that illustrated his theories on flight.
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The Montgolfier brothers invent the first hot air balloons.
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The inventors of the first airplane were Orville and Wilbur Wright. On December 17, 1903,
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During the mid 1500's, Italian inventor Leonardo Da Vinci made drawings of an ornithopter flying machine that some experts say inspired the modern day helicopter.
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Two engineers, Frank Whittle of the United Kingdom and Hans von Ohain of Germany, developed the jet engine during the late 1930s.
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Frank Whittle was the first to register a patent for the turbojet engine in 1930.
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Airplane in the modern day time
