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Video of ornithoptersPeople tried to imitate birds in order to fly. They built wings called ornithopters.
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Leonardo Da Vinci creates sketches of flying machines.
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A few aeronauts made flights in lighter-than-air-balloons.
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Designed the first successful glider airplane. He was also a pioneer of aeronautical engineering.
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Samuel Pierpont Langley successfully flew a steam-powered plane.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright make first successful flight.
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First quasi-officla airmail flight made by Fred Wiseman when he carried 3 letters between Petaluma and Santa Rosa, California.
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John Alcock and Arthur Brown land their airplane in Ireland, marking the first nonstop flight across the atlantic.
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Seats.
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Airplane houses.
