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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 made to beat the air.
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Leonardo da Vinci of Italy drew plans and pictures of human powered flight. These plans including and "ornithologist" that attached to the Pilates 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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Montgofier brothers tested their hot air balloon through an 8 km flight across pairs. They had discovered that a balloon made of linen bags filled with fire heated air had enough lift to carry two 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. As a child, Cayley built and flew model gliders. Forty years later he built a model big enough to carry a small bog several meters above the ground. In 1853 he made the first glider to carry an adult. A coach man of Sir George Cayley flew across a valley at his home at Brompton Hall, near Scarborough.
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Otto Lilienthal of Germany was the first hevierthan air pilot. He developed methods to control glider flight. A glider whose flight can be controlled by shifting his weight.
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their horse power gas engine and propeller, and became the first humans to trully fly. The Wright brothers chose to test their flyer at kitty Hawk
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The Aerial Experiment Association included Alexander Graham Bell. Casey Baldwin became the first Canadian pilot in march 1908.
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William Wallace Gibson created small model planes that flew, and worked on an to power a full sized airplane.
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Aerial Service Company, in 1919 and laid out the first licence aerodrome in Canada. Groomed became the first person to have a registrar aircraft in Canada.
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Aerial photography surveys in 1924. These surveys let to increased mineral exploration and the development of norther Saskatchewan.
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In 1946, the SAAS was founded, the first and only civilian Air ambulance surface in north america.
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Smokejumpers were the first used in Saskatchewan in 1947. These firefighters parachuted into newly discovered fires to stop them spreading.
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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 air craft and set a new air speed record of more than twice the speed of sound in 1952.
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The Avro Arrow project was canceled on Feb 20 1959, just three weeks before it was officially to take flight. It took Canada 40 years to re-crate the level of technology that was included in the Avro Arrow.
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Hugh McPhail was a pioneer flying farmer, having the unique back round of being both a bomber pilot in the royal air force.
