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Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon suggested that a person can sit in the middle of an "Engine for Flying" which would move wings and would cause artificial wings to beat the air. -
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci drew plans and pictures of human-powered flight that include "ornithoptor" that is attached to a pilot's back and drove two large flaps,and and simple helicopter.He also invented parachute. -
Montgolfier Brothers
They tested their hot air balloon ithrough an 8-km flight across Paris.The discovered that is balloon made of linen bag filled with fire-heated air had enough lift to carry two people. -
George Cayley
He studied animal flight and designed a monoplane glider to carry humans.He built a glider big enough to carry a boy seven meters away from the ground.He made the first glider to carry an adult. -
Otto Lilienthal
He developed methods to control glider flight.Lilienthal launched a glider whose flight could be controlles by shifting his weight. -
Wright Brothers
They made the first successful powered flight.They built their own 12-horsepower gas engine and propeller.The first flight lasted 12 seconds and travelled a distance of 36.5 meter. -
Aerial Experiment Association
This group of inventors was important to Candian aviation history.Casey Baldwin became the fist Canadian pilot,flying Red Wing.Silver Dart,constructed in 1908,was flown by McCurdy,who made the first controlled powered flight in Canada. -
William Wallace Gibson
William created small model planes that flew,and worked on an engine to power a full-sized airplane.This engine was the first Canadian aircraft engine to be tested successfully. -
Aerial Service Company
They laid out the first licensed aerodrome in Canada.On April 20,1920,Groome became the first person to have registered aircraft on Canada,on the same day McCombie became the first person in Canada to earn an "Air Engineer's Certificate".On July 20 of that same year,Groome was issued Canada's first commercial flying license. -
Aerial Photography
The Royal Canadian Air Force started taking aerial photography surveys.These surveys led to increased mineral exploration an the development of northern Saskatchewan. -
SAAS
Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Service was the first and only civilian air ambulance service in North America. -
Chuck Yeager
He broke the sound barrier by flying faster than the speed of sound in a rocket-powered X-1 Plane.Yeager continued to test new aircraft and set a new airspeed record of more than twice the speed of sound in 1952. -
Smokejumpers
These firefighters parachuted into newly discovered fires to stop them from spreading.They became important in forest fire detection and suppression. -
The Avro Arrow
The Avro Arrow,was designes in Canada in the 1950's.It was the most advanced airplane of its time.Some aerospace engineers believe that it took Canada 40 years to recreate the level of technology that was included in the Avro Arrow. -
Hugh McPhail
He is a bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force,an agricultural economist,and a pioneer flying farmer.This background gave him the expertise to begin aerial crop spraying using a variety of herbicides and insecticides.
