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China invents the first working kite in the 1000 BC era.
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King Bladud (according to legend) tried to fly and died in the atempt. (852 BC era)
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The Greeks write about flying. Some of these things include pegasus' and Hermes flying shoes. (BC era)
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Roger Bacon, an English Cleric, writes about mechanical flight.
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Leonardo Di Vinci draws sketches for a flying machine. This is where the idea for others developed.
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Joesph and Jacques Montgolfier take a mile ride in the first hot air balloon. This was the first recorded flight in the history of ever.
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George Cayley has the idea and creates the Glider. It took him 50 years and many modifications to make the flow just right over the wings. No matter the efforts though, he was never able to fly his precious machine.
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Otto Lilienthal, a German engineer who studied arodynamics, created another verison of the glider. After many attempted flights however (about 2500), he died in a fatal crash.
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Samuel P. Langley realized that in order for man to fly, we need power. He designed the first plane to run on fuel, and called it an aerodome. The model flew fine, the the actual sized one was too heavy.
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Octave Chanute writes all he knows about flight in the book Progress in Flying Machines. The Wright Brothers used his works and advice for mcuh of the progress of constructing the plane.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully fly the first plane. After many months of aketches and attempts, the Flyer flew for 39 minutes and 24 miles. This was the first truley triumphant flight ever to be recorded.
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Orville Wright and known US Army Leitenant Thomas E. Selfridge went up in a plane. The propeller broke when they were about seventy five feet up and crashed. Orville was injured, and Selfridge died.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright sign a contract to build the first military plane .
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Female pilot Amelia Earhart is the first woman in history to fly from coast to coast in the USA by herself. She set many other records besieds this, but this was one of her biggest achievments.
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Albert II was the first monkey to be successfully sent into space. However, an accedient with a paracute landing killed the poor monkey, so he never got to feel the glory.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 is formed (NASA). People are starting to wonder what's out there, and if we can make contact with the unknown.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are the first humans to land on the moon. This accomplishment put the USA over the Soviet Union in terms of space travel.
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Earth Day is established. This is important to flight because it was made during the Apollo program, so people think it was meant to be,
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The Mission from Planet Earth program called a symposium and entitled it "What is the value of space explporation". Here was called to order the key benificial points of space travel by many different scientists.
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The International Acadamy of Aronautics called the first international meeting on space and science. This was taken place in Budapest, Hungary, and people from all over the world studied space and science together. They also published The Impact of Space Activities upon Society.
