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Roger Bacon, a Franciscan monk in England, suggested that a person can sit in the middle of an "engine for flying" which would move artificial wings made to beat the air. -
Leonardo da Vinci of Italy drew plans and pictures of human-powered flight. These plans included an "ornithopter" that attached to a pilot's back and drove to large flaps, and a simple helicopter. He also invented the parachute, which enables humans to descend from great heights. -
Jacques Montgolfier of France tested their hot air balloon an 8-km flight across Paris. They had discovered that a balloon made of linen bags filled with fire heated air had enough to lift to carry two people
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A Pioneer of modern aviation, Sir George Cayley of England studied animal flight and designed a monoplane glider to carry humans. Forty years later he build a model big enough to carry a small boy several metres above the ground. In 1853 he made the first glider to carry an adult coachman of Sir George Cayley flew across a valley at his home at Brompton hall, near Scarborough. Once on the ground the coachman shouted "I was hired to drive not to fly" -
Most of the aviators at this time were concerned only with building flying machines and not about learning to fly them. Otto Lilienthal of Germany was the first heaver-than air pilot. In 1891, he developed methods to control glider flight.
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On December 17, 1903, the American Wright flyer made the first successful powered flight
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The Aerial experiment association included Alexander Graham bell, Jhon McCurdy, Casey Baldwin, and American motorcycle designer, Glen Curtiss.
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OF Regina, Saskatchewan, recieve many honours during their flight careers.
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Chuck Yeager of the United States broke the sound barrier by flying faster than the speed of sound in a rocket-powered X-1 Plane. At the time, it was not known if an aircraft could fly faster than the speed that sound travels, or if a pilot could survive flying at that speed. Yeager continued to test new aircraft and set new airspeed record of more than twice the speed of sound in 1952.
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Was a pioneer flying farmer, having the royal unique backround of being both a bomber pilot in the royal family
