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Roger Bacon invented the first flying invention that a small boy could fly in by sitting in the middle of and engine and would move artificial wings to beat the air.
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Leonardo di Vinci invented many things that include flight. One of the things was the ornithopter. The ornithopter is a aircraft that flies by the wings flapping. -
The Montgolfier brothers invented the hot air balloon. They tested it and noticed that the plastic was strong enough to hold two people.
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The wright brothers were the people wo made the first successful powered flight. It was a 12 horse-power gas engine and propeller, and they became the first people to truly fly. -
The Aerial Experiment Association was a very important group of inventors. The people involved in this group held many firsts for Canadian flight history. -
He created small model planes that flew. and worked on an engine to fly a full sized plane. This would end up being the first Canadian aircraft engine to be tested successfully when it powered Gibson's plane on a flight in BC on September 10 1910
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SAAS is the Saskatchewan air ambulance service. People noticed what they could do with airplanes, so they decided it would be a good idea to make an ambulance that could fly. This was created in 1946 and is used to this day. -
Smokejumpers were used first in Saskatchewan in 1947. These firefighters parachuted out of plane to fight forest fires and other fires needed to be put out and/or stopped from spreading. -
Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier by flying faster then the speed of sound in a rocket powered X-1 plane. They didn't know if Chuck was going to survive flying in the plane. He also set the record of more then twice the speed of sound while flying. -
The Avro Arrow was invented in 1950 and at the time was considered the most advanced airplane of the time. Space aerospace engineers believe that it took Canada at least 40 years to create the same level of technology.
