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Nov 14, 1260
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon suggested that a person could sit in the middle of an "engine for flying" which would move artificial wings made to beat the air. -
Jan 25, 1500
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci of Italy drew plans and pictures of human powered flight. These plans including and "ornithologist" that attached to the Pilates back and drove to large flaps and a simple helicopter. He also invented the parachute which enables humans to descend from great heights. -
Montgofier brothers
Montgofier brothers tested their hot air balloon through an 8 km flight across pairs. They had discovered that a balloon made of linen bags filled with fire heated air had enough lift to carry two people. -
Sir George Cayley
A pioneer of modern aviation, Sir George Cayley of England studied animal flight and designed a monoplane glider to carry humans. As a child, Cayley built and flew model gliders. Forty years later he built a model big enough to carry a small bog several meters above the ground. In 1853 he made the first glider to carry an adult. A coach man of Sir George Cayley flew across a valley at his home at Brompton Hall, near Scarborough. -
Otto Lilienthal
Otto Lilienthal of Germany was the first hevierthan air pilot. He developed methods to control glider flight. A glider whose flight can be controlled by shifting his weight. -
Wright brothers
their horse power gas engine and propeller, and became the first humans to trully fly. The Wright brothers chose to test their flyer at kitty Hawk -
Aerial Experiment Association
The Aerial Experiment Association included Alexander Graham Bell. Casey Baldwin became the first Canadian pilot in march 1908. -
William Wallace Gibson
William Wallace Gibson created small model planes that flew, and worked on an to power a full sized airplane. -
Aerial Service Company
Aerial Service Company, in 1919 and laid out the first licence aerodrome in Canada. Groomed became the first person to have a registrar aircraft in Canada. -
Aerial photography
Aerial photography surveys in 1924. These surveys let to increased mineral exploration and the development of norther Saskatchewan. -
SAAS
In 1946, the SAAS was founded, the first and only civilian Air ambulance surface in north america. -
Smokejumpers
Smokejumpers were the first used in Saskatchewan in 1947. These firefighters parachuted into newly discovered fires to stop them spreading. -
Chuck Yeager
Chuck Yeager of the united states broke the sound barrier by flying faster than the speed of sound in a rocket powered X-1 Plane. Yeager continued to test new air craft and set a new air speed record of more than twice the speed of sound in 1952. -
Avro Arrow
The Avro Arrow project was canceled on Feb 20 1959, just three weeks before it was officially to take flight. It took Canada 40 years to re-crate the level of technology that was included in the Avro Arrow. -
Hugh McPhail
Hugh McPhail was a pioneer flying farmer, having the unique back round of being both a bomber pilot in the royal air force.
