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Leonardo made plans and pictures of human powered flight. They included an "ornithopter" It was attached to a pilot's back and drove two large flaps. also a simple helicopter. He also invented parachutes. -
Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier in France tested their first hot air balloon through an 8-km flight across Paris. They discovered that a balloon made of linen bags filled with fire heated air had enough lift to carry two people. -
George Cayley of England studied animal flight and designed a monoplane glider to carry humans. When he was a child, he used to make a few model gliders. At age 45, he built a model big enough to carry a small boy several meters above the ground. 1853, he finally built one big enough to carry an adult. -
Otto Lilienthal In Germany was the first heavier than-air pilot. 1891, he developed methods to control glider flight. From one of the hills in Germany, Otto launched a glider whose flight could be controlled by shifting his weight. It was like leaning on a bicycle, but he was on air. -
The wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur in United States built their own horsepower gas engine and propeller, and became one of the first ever humans to fly. Flyer 1 had two 12-m wings on each side of the fuselage, aka the body of the aircraft. They chose to test their flyer and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina because of the area's strong and steady wind. -
Alexander Graham Bell, John McCurdy, Casey Baldwin, and Glenn Curtiss. Casey became the first one to Canadian pilot in March 1908, flying red wing. the silver dart was constructed in 1908, Flown by John. William Wallace Gibson was the first to create small models that flew. The engine was the first Canadian aircraft engine to be tested successfully . -
Chuck Yeager of United States broke the sound barrier, he flew faster than the speed of the sound in a rocket powered X-1 plane. At that time it was not known if an aircraft could even fly faster than the speed that sound travels. He set a new air speed record in 1952 more then twice the speed of sound. -
The royal Canadian air force started taking aerial photography surveys in 1924. The Smokejumpers where first used om Saskatchewan in 1947. These firefighters parachuted into a newly discovered fires to stop them from spreading. they became important for forest fires.
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Hugh was a pioneer flying farmer, having the unique background of being both a bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force and an agricultural economist. this background gave him the expertise to begin aerial crop spraying in 1951 -
Avro Arrow, designed in Canada in the 1950's. was said to be the most advanced airplane of its time. it's test speed was Mach 1.98 or 1.98 times the speed of sound. It also had the many "first: aircraft design. It was cancelled in February 20, 1959, just three weeks before it was officially to take flight. The plane and all it's design documents were destroyed. Some believe that it took 40 years to re-create the level of technology that was included in the Avro Arrow.
