Flight Time Line

By ja010
  • Roger Bacon
    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.
  • Leonardo Da Vinci
    Nov 16, 1500

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    He drew plans and pictures of human powered flight.
  • Montgolfier Brothers.

    Montgolfier Brothers.

    They tested their hot air balloon through an 8-Km flight across Paris.
  • Sir George Clayey

    Sir George Clayey

    He studied animal flight and designed a monoplane glider to carry humans.
  • Otto Lilienthal

    Otto Lilienthal

    He was the first heavier than air pilot.
  • Wright Brothers

    Wright Brothers

    They made the first successful powered fligt.
  • Aerial Experiment Association

    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

    William Wallace Gibson

    He created small model planes that flew.
  • Aerial Service Company

    Aerial Service Company

    They started aerial service company In 1919 and laid out the first licensed in Canada.
  • Aerial Photography

    Aerial Photography

    The Canada air force started taking aerial photography surveys in 1924.
  • SAAS

    SAAS

    In 1946 the SAAS was founded the first and only civilian air ambulance service in North America.
  • Smoke Jumpers

    Smoke Jumpers

    They were first used in Saskatchewan in 1947.
  • Chuck Yeager

    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

    Avro Arrow

    It was designed in Canada in the 1950's was said to be the most advanced airplane of its time.
  • Hugh McPhail

    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.