Flight

By ks041@learner.nesd.ca
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    Roger Bacon

    invented the magning glass,improved gunpowder, making it more effective for rockets, and also proposed early concepts for ornithopters and lighter-than-air craft.

  • Otto Lilienthal's

    Otto Lilienthal's primary contribution to flight was the development and testing of gliders.

  • William Wallace Gibson

    a number of aircraft, including the "twin-planeit" made him the first Canadian to design, build, and fly an airplane, pioneering Canadian aviation.

  • Chuck Yeager

    first pilot to break the sound barrier in it

  • Hugh McPhail

    a machine that prevented water backflow in cellar to help with flooding.

  • Avro Arrow

    groundbreaking delta wing design which significantly impacted super sonic fligh