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Roger Bacon a Franciscan monk in England suggested that a person could sit in the middle 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-powered flight. These plans include an "ornithoptor" 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.
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Brothers Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier of France tested there hot air balloon through an 8-km flight across Paris. They had discovered that a balloon made of linen bags filled with fire heated air had enough lift to carry 2 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.He built a model big enough to carry a small boy several meters off the ground In 1853 he made the first glider to carry a adult.
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Most of the aviators at this time were concerned only with building flying machines and not about learning how to fly them. Otto Lilienthal of Germany was the first heavier-than-air-pilot. He developed methods to control glider flight. From a hill in Germany, Lilienthal launched a glider controlled by shifting your weight.
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The wright brothers made the first successful powered flight. The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, of the U.S built there own 12 horsepower gas engine and propeler.
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Casey Baldwin became the first Canadian pilot.
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He created a small model planes that flew, and worked on an engine to power a full sized plane. It was the fist Canadian aircraft engine tested successfully.
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the Aerial Service Company laid out the first licensed aerodrome in Canada.
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The Saskatchewan air ambulance service was founded, the and only civilian air ambulance in North America.
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Smokejumpers were first used in Saskatchewan. These firefighters parachuted into newly discovered fires to prevent spreading.
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He broke the sound barrier by flying faster than the speed of sound.
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It was said to be the most advanced airplane of it's time. It's test speed was mach 1.98 or 1.98.
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Hugh McPhail was a pioneer flying farmer, he was a bomber pilot in the royal air force. his background gave him expertise to begin ariel crop spraying.
