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the first manned flight. A hot-air balloon was launched in paris for all to see on board were two close friends of the Montgolfier brothers, Pilatre de Rozier and Francious Laurent. www.brisbanehotairballooning.com.au/history-of-hot-air-balloons/
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Wilbur and Orville wWrite made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft it was mainly made of wood and a cloth called muslin
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the newly invented airplane entered ww1 as an observer of enemy activity www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/fokker.htm
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with the chemicals on the market kill both insects and weeds farmers looked for the best way to apply them. A farm was being attacked by sphinx moths and a pilot dusted the crops killing the moths. The word was out and farmers were looking for pilots and thus began the crop dusting industryhttp://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/pests_04.html
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this was invented independently by Frank whittle. the first turbojet to fly was the Heinkle
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chuck yeager was the pilot and had two broken ribs from horse back riding he told no one and climbed into the cock pit he took off and droped the bombs and excelerated in speed breaking the sound barrier http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter3.html
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no one person invented the spaceship but the work of a large team the first ship safely put a man in space. https://howthingsfly.si.edu/...
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the QF-16 will provide a fourth generation fighter representation of real world threats
https://www.rt.com/usa/air-force-unmanned-fighter-flight-301/