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Roger Bacon suggested that a person could sit in the middle of an "engine for flying" which would move artificial wings.
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Leonardo da Vinci drew plans and pictures of human- powered flight. He also invented the parachute which enable humans to descend from great heights.
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Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier tested their hot-air balloon through an 8-km flight across Paris. After many failed experiments and design flying machines were finally created that could carry people.
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He made a glider that could carry an adult.
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Most of the aviators at this time were concerned only with building flying machines and not about learning to fly them. He was the first heavier than air-pilot. In 1981 he developed methods to control glider flight.
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The American wright flyer made the first successful powered flight. They built their own 12-horsepower gas engine and propeller and became the first human to truly fly.
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They won the scientific American trophy by being the first to officially fly 1 km in North America.
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Wallace Gibson created small model planes that flew and worked on an engine was
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The aerial Service Company, in 1919 and laid out the first licensed aerodrome in Canada.
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The Royal Canadian Air Force started taking aerial photography surveys in 1924. These surveys led to increased mineral exploration and the development of northern Saskatchewan.
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Today the SAAS continues to offer a vital service in to Saskatchewan's northern communities.
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Smoke jumpers were first to used in Saskatchewan in 1947
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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.Yeager continued to test new aircraft and set a new airspeed record of more than twice the speed of sound in 1952
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Hugh McPhail was a pioneer flying farmer, having the unique backround of being both a bomber pilot in the royal Air Force and an agrivulture economist.
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They said that it was designed in Canada in the 1950s, was said to be the most advanced airplane of its time.
