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Roger Bacon thought that humans could fly by sitting in an engine for flying which would beat manmade wings to fly.
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Leonardo da Vinci drew out plans and sketches for human powered flight. The plans included an "ornithopter" that connected to the drivers back
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Brothers Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier of France tested their hot-air balloon through an 8-KM flight across Paris. -
Sir George Cayley of England studied animal flight and designed a glider that could carry humans -
Otto Lilienthal was the first heavier-than-air pilot. In 1891 he developed methods to control glider flight. -
On Dec 17, 1903, the American Wright Flyer made the first successful powered flight. -
Chuck Yeager of the US broke the sound barrier by flying faster than the speed of sound in a rocket-powered X-1 Plane.
