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Roger Bacon was a francisan monk in england. He suggested that a person could sit in the middle of an engine for flying and it would use artificial wings in order to beat the air and cause flight. -
Leonardo drew plans and pictures for a human powered flight machine also known as the ornithopter. The ornithopter would be attached to someone's back and be drove with 2 large wings -
The two brothers Joseph and Jacques of France decided to test there hot air balloon and they decided it had enough lift to carry two people
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The American Wright Flyer made the first successful flight. Orville and Wilbur of the USA built a 12 horsepower gas engine and a propeller. The flyer 1 has 12 m wings
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William Wallace Gibson created small airplane models that flew and worked on engines. -
Groome and McCombie along with Edward Clarke formed an aviation company The Arial Service Company. This happened in 1919. It laid out its first licensed aerodrome in Canada. On April 20 of 1920 Groome became the first person to have registered an aircraft in Canada.
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People came up with new ways for aircraft to be used. The Royal Canadian Air Force started taking Ariel Photography surveys
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The Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Service was founded the first and only air ambulance in North America. Today the SAAS continues to offer a vital service
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Smokejumpers were first used in Saskatchewan in 1947.They were firefighters and they parachuted into newly discovered fires to stop them from spreading.
