The Dream of Flying

 

 

 


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  To start page "The Eternal Flyer"

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Page 2: The Bird Man - Rock Carving from Swedish Bronze Age.

Page 3: Alexander the Great c. 300 BC

Page 4: Eilmer the Flying Monk 1010 AD

Page 5: Ornihopter - prone type - Leonardo da Vinci 1485 - 1500

Page 6: Ornithopter - standing pilot - Leonardo da Vinci

Page 7: Helicopter - Leonardo da Vinci

Page 8: Parachutes - Leonardo Da Vinci (1483) and Veranzio (1617)

Page 9: Burratino and "The Flying Dragon" 1647

Page 10: Francesco Lana and his Flying Ship described in "Prodomo"  1670

Page 11: Besnier flies with flappers  1678

Page 12: Gusmão and His Flying Machine Passarola 1709

Page 13: Emanuel Swedenborg and his "Machine to Fly in the Weather" 1714

Page 14: De Bacqueville almost crosses the Seine with wings c. 1742

Page 15: Bauer designs a fixed-wing monoplane 1764

Page 16: Meerwin made tests with his ornthopter/glider 1781

Page 17: Blanchard builds his "flying boat", the ornithopter "Vaisseau Volant" 1781

Page 18: The First Montgolfier Hot-air Balloon - 4th of June, 1783

Page 19:Professor Charles' Globe gets attacked (1783)

Page 20: First Montgolfier with Passengers - three Animals. 19th September, 1783.

Page 21: First Aerial Voyage in History. November 21, 1783.

Page 23 Making of Hydrogen Gas

Page 24: Vincenzo Lunardi - an Italian Balloonist in Britain (1784)

Page 25:The First Airscrew (1784)

Page 26: Måns, the Swedish Cat Makes a Flight and gets a New Home 1784

Page 34: A Balloon Launching 250 km North of the Arctic Circle in 1799

Page 38: Henson's Aerial Steam Carriage (1840)

Page 55: Franz Reichelt - A Modern Tower-jumper (1912)

Page 65: Henri Mignet's Pou du Ciel /Flying Flea (1935)
 

 
     
         
 

 

 
         
   
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