History of flight

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In about 1490 Leonardo da Vinci drew plans for a flying machine.

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The Wright brothersʼ first practical flying machine, with Orville Wright at the controls, passes over Huffman Prairie, near Dayton, Ohio, October 4, 1905.

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English aeronautic pioneer George Cayley established the modern notion of a fixed-wing aircraft in 1799, and he designed a glider (shown in the drawing) that was safely flown by his reluctant servant in 1853 in the first recorded successful manned flight.





Lilienthal glider
German aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal piloting one of his gliders, c. 1895.
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Wilbur Wright executes a banking turn to the right in the Wright brothersʼ first fully controllable glider, at the Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, October 24, 1902.

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Langley aerodrome No. 5 American aeronautic pioneer Samuel P. Langley conducting flight tests from a houseboat on the Potomac River near Quantico, Va. On May 6, 1896, after numerous failures, he launched aerodrome No. 5, which rose, circled, and settled gently in the water after running out of fuel.






Orville Wright beginning the first successful controlled flight in history, at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, December 17, 1903.
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Pilcher Hawk In 1896 English aviator Percy Sinclair Pilcher designed, built, and flew the Pilcher Hawk, a monoplane glider with birdlike wings.
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Santos-Dumont No. 14-bis In 1906 Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont made the first significant flights of a powered airplane in Europe with his No. 14-bis.
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Louis Bleriot standing before his Type XI monoplane, which he flew across the English Channel on July 25, 1909.
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