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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 beat the air.
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the Montgolfier of France tested their hot air balloon through an 8-km flight across Paris.
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Otto Lilienthal of Germany was the first heavier than air pilot.in 1891 he developed methods to control glider flight.
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The Wright brothers of the untied states built their own 12 horsepower gas engine and propeller and became the first humans to truly fly.
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created a small model planes that flew and worked on an engine to power a full sized airplane.
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In 1946 the Saskatchewan Air ambulance SAAS was founded the first and only civilian air ambulance service in north America
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Smokejumpers, were first used in Saskatchewan in 1947.These firefighters parachuted into newly discovered fires to stop them from 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
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Hugh McPhail was a pioneer flying farmer having the unique background of being both a bomber pilot in the royal air force and an agricultural economist.
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the Avro Arrow, designed in Canada in the 1950, was said to be the most advanced airplane of it time. its test speed was Mach 1.98,or 1.98 times the speed of sound. The Avro Arrow project was cancelled on February 20,1959,just tree weeks before it was officially to tack flight.
