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1260
Roger Bacon
A Francis monk in England,suggested that a person could sit in the middle of an engine for flying which would move artificial wings made to beat the air. -
Nov 16, 1500
Leonardo Da Vinci
He drew plans and pictures of human powered flight. -
Montgolfier Brothers.
They tested their hot air balloon through an 8-Km flight across Paris. -
Sir George Clayey
He studied animal flight and designed a monoplane glider to carry humans. -
Otto Lilienthal
He was the first heavier than air pilot. -
Wright Brothers
They made the first successful powered fligt. -
Aerial Experiment Association
Alexandra Graham Bell., John McCurdy,Casey Baldwin, and American motorcycle designer, Glenn Curtiss. This group was important to Candida aviation history. Casey Baldwin became the first Canadian pilot in March 1908. -
William Wallace Gibson
He created small model planes that flew. -
Aerial Service Company
They started aerial service company In 1919 and laid out the first licensed in Canada. -
Aerial Photography
The Canada air force started taking aerial photography surveys in 1924. -
SAAS
In 1946 the SAAS was founded the first and only civilian air ambulance service in North America. -
Smoke Jumpers
They were first used in Saskatchewan in 1947. -
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. -
Avro Arrow
It was designed in Canada in the 1950's was said to be the most advanced airplane of its time. -
Hugh McPhail
He was a pioneer flying farmer,having the unique background of being both a bomber pilot in the royal Air force and an agriculture economist.
