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He suggested that a person could sit in the middle of an "engine for flying." This was the start of air planes.
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He drew plans and pictures of air planes. He also invented the parachute.
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Joseph and Jacques tested their hot air balloon through an 8-km flight through Paris. They had discovered that a balloon made of linen bags with fire-heated air had enough lift to carry two people. This was the first hot air balloon.
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He studied animal flight and designed monoplane glider to carry humans. In 1853, he made the first glider to carry an adult.
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He developed a method to control the glider.
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They built their own 12-horsepower gas engine and propeller, and became the frst humans to fly.
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Casey Baldwin was the first Canadian pilot. Another plane won the Scientific American trophy by being the first to fly 1 km.
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William created small model planes that flew, and worked on an engine to power a full-sized airplane.
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Roland Groome and Robert McCombie made the first flight from saskatoon to Regina.
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The Royal Canadian Air Force started taking aerial photography.
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Saskatchewan Air Ambulance Service was founded. Today, the SAAS still helps us.
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He flew faster than the speed of sound.
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Smoke jumpers parachuted into fires to stop them from spreading. They were important because they stopped fires.
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Hugh McPhail was a pioneer flying farmer, having a unique background of being both a bomber pilot and an agricultural economist. This background gave him to be able to begin crop spraying.
