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Leonardo da Vinci of Italy drew plans and pictures of human-powered flight. These plans included an "ornithopter" that attached to a pilouts back and drove two large flaps, and a simple helicopter
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Brothers Josetph and Jacques Mongolfiers of France tested their hot air balloon through an 8-km flight across Paris. They had discoverded that a balloon made of linene bags filled with fire-heated air had enogh lift to carry 2 people
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Sir George cayley of England studied animals and designed a monoplane to carry humans. As a child, Cayley built a model plane. Forty Years later he built -
Most of the aviators at this time were concerned only with builting the flying machines and not learning to fly the flying machines. Otto Lilienthal of Germany was the first heavier than the air pilot.
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They made the first successful powered flight. Wilbur and Orville, of the United states built their own 12-horsepower gas engine and propeller, and became the first human to truly fly. -
They laid out the first licensed aerodrome in Canada. On April 20,1920, Groome became the first person to have a registered aircraft in Canada, on the same day McCombie became the first person in Canada to earn an "Air Engineer Certificate." That is all I have to say about Aerial Service Company -
SAAS stands for Saskatchewan air ambulance service. Today SAAS continues to offer a vital service to Saskatchewan northern community's. "Smokejumpers," were the first used in Saskatchewan in 1947.
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Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier by flying faster the speed on sound. He was flying a rocket powered X-1 plane. At the time, it was not known if an aircraft could fly faster than the speed of sound. -
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. This background gave him the expertise to begin aerial crop spraying in 1951. -
The Avro Arrow, designed in Canada in the 1950s, was said to be the most advanced airplane of its time. Its test speed was Mach 1.98 or 1.98 times the speed of sound
