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Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon is a Franciscan monk in England. He makes flying wings and makes engine for flying. -
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci is from Italy. He drew plans and pictures of human-powered flight. -
Montgolfier brothers
Brothers Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier are from France. They tested their hot-air balloon through an 8-km flight across Paris. -
Sir George Cayley
Sir George C. is from England. He is a pioneer of modern aviation and studied animal flight and designed a monoplane glider. -
Otto Lilienthal
Otto Lilienthal is from Germany. He launched a glider flight from the hill in Germany. -
Wright Brothers
Orville and Wilbur Wrights is from The United States. They built their own 12-horsepower gas engine and propeller. They became the first humans to truly fly. -
Aerial Experiment Association
Casey Baldwin became the first Canadian pilot in March 1908, flying Red Wing. The Silver Dart, was flown by John McCurdy, who made the first controlled powered flight in Canada on February 23, 1909. -
William Wallace Gibson
He created small model planes that flew, and worked on an engine to power a full-sized airplane. -
Aerial Service Company
They received many honours during their flying careers. They made the first flight from Saskatoon to Regina in 1919. Groome became the first person to have a registered aircraft in Canada. McCombie became the first person in Canada to earn an " Air Engineer's Certificate." -
Aerial Photography
Over time, people in Saskatchewan came up with new uses for airplanes and flight. The Royal Canadian Air Force started taking aerial photography surveys in 1924. The surveys led to increased mineral exploration and the development of northern Saskatchewan. -
SAAS
SAAS was founded, the first and only civilian air ambulance service in North America. The SAAS continues to offer a vital service to Saskatchewan's northern communities. -
Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager is from the United States. He broke the sound barrier by flying faster than the speed of sound in a rocket-powered X-1 plane. He continued to test new aircraft and set a new airspeed record. -
Smoke Jumpers
Smokehumpers were firts used in Saskatchewan in 1947. These firefighters were parachuted into newly discovered fires to stop them from spreading. They became important in foresty fire detection and superpression. -
Avro Arrow
It was designed in Canada in the 1950s. It had many "firsts" in aircraft design. It was cancelled on February 20, 1959, just three weeks before it was officially to take flight. -
Hugh McPhail
He was a pioneer flying farmer, having the unique backround of being both a bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force and an agriculture economist. This backround gave him the expertise to begin aerial crop spraying in 1951.
