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leonardo da vinci made the first real studies of flight in the 1480's.He had over 100 drawings that illustrated his theories on flight.
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the brothers joseph michel and jacques etienne montgolfier were the inventors of the first hot air ballon
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1799-1850 george cayleya George Cayley worked to discover a way that man could fly. He designed many different versions of gliders that used the movements of the body to control.
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Henri Giffard built the first powered blimp
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A young boy made the first manned flight in a glider designed by Cayley in 1849. In 1874, Felix duTemple made the first attempt at powered flight by hopping off the end of a ramp in a steam-driven monoplane
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german engineer otto lilienthal studied aerodynamics and worked to design a glider
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Samuel Langley was an astronomer, who realized that power was needed to help man fly. which he called an aerodrome, that included a steam-powered engine. In 1891, his model flew for 3/4s of a mile before running out of fuel.
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Octave Chanute published Progress in Flying Machines in 1894.
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they had built and worked hard to build there first airplane
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July 2, 1900 - The first flight of the Zeppelin, a "rigid" airship that was the first aircraft to use large metal structure
