Events
1490 Leonardo DaVinci's plan
for a man-carrying ornithopter
with flapping wings.1783 Montgolfier hot-air balloon.1799 Sir George Cayley's plan
for a fixed-wing aircraft.1810, Thomas Walker,
publishes a pamphlet
on the possibilities of fixed-
wing aviation1853, Sir George Cayley builds a version of his glider1857,Felix Du Temple and his
brother Louis flied the first
powered monoplane1871, Francis Herbert
Wenham and John Browning,
England, invent the wind tunnel.1875, Thomas Moy demonstrates
a large but unmanned "Aerial Steamer"1905, Cody, an American
ex-patriot building "war kites"1912, Lt. John H. Towers experiments with the use of aircraft for anti-submarine warfare.
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