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Roger Bacon, a Franciscan monk in England, suggested that a person could sit in front of an engine for flying which would move artificial wings made to beat the air.
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Leonardo da Vinci of Italy drew plans and pictures of human power flight. These plans included a "ornithopter" that attached to a pilots back and drove two large flaps, and a simple helicopter.he also invented the parachute -
Sir George Cayley studied animal flight and designed the monoplane glider to carry humans. As a child, Cayley built and flew model gliders. Forty years later he built a model big enough to carry a small boy boy several meters above the ground. In 1853 he made the first glider to carry an adult human.
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The American Wright Flyer made the first successful powered. The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, of the United States built their own 12-horsepower gas engine and propeller, and became the first humans to truly fly.
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Casey Baldwin became the first Canadian pilot in march 1908,flying Red Wing. Another plane the June Bug, won scientific American trophy by being the first to officially fly 1km in North America. Also included Alexander Graham Bell, John McCurdy, Glenn Curtiss
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The first and only Air Ambulance service in North America
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Smokejumpers were first used in Saskatchewan in 1947. These firefighters parachuted into newly discovered fires to stop them from spreading
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Hugh McPhail was a pioneer flying farmer, having the unique background of being both a bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force and agriculture economist. This background gave him the expertise to begin a Ariel crop spraying 1951
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Chuck Yeager of the United States breaking the sound barrier by flying faster than the speed of sound in a rocket powered X-1 plane.
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The Avro Arrow designed in Canada in the 1950s, was said to be the most advanced airplane of its time. Its test speed was Mach 1.98.it also had many first in airplane designees
