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Timeline of aviation before the 18th century

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72: 676:(永定三年)使元黄头与诸囚自金凤台各乘纸鸱以飞,黄头独能至紫陌乃堕,仍付御史中丞毕义云饿杀之。(Rendering: , Gao Yang conducted an experiment by having Yuan Huangtou and a few prisoners launch themselves from a tower in Ye, capital of the Northern Qi. Yuan Huangtou was the only one who survived from this flight, as he glided over the city-wall and fell at Zimo safely, but he was later executed.) 589:
a vacuum-airship-project, considered the first realistic, technical plan for an airship. His design is for an aircraft with a boat-like body equipped with a sail, suspended under four globes made of thin copper; he believes the craft would rise into the sky if air was pumped out of the globes. No
842: 568:(hemispheres of Magdeburg).Sixteen horses are unable to pull apart two completely airless hemispheres which stick to each other only because of the external air pressure. 630: 407: 894: 940: 930: 925: 920: 53: 46: 39: 835: 875: 714:(Spring, 1961). "Eilmer of Malmesbury, an Eleventh Century Aviator: A Case Study of Technological Innovation, Its Context and Tradition", 692:(Spring, 1961). "Eilmer of Malmesbury, an Eleventh Century Aviator: A Case Study of Technological Innovation, Its Context and Tradition", 887: 828: 389:. He envisions and sketches flying machines such as helicopters and parachutes, and notes studies of airflows and streamlined shapes. 811: 791: 324:, a "Turk" attempts to fly by jumping off of one of the central pillars with some form of winged construct, plummeting to his death. 880: 1593: 899: 870: 634:, the basis of classical physics. In book II he presented the theoretical derivation of the essence of the drag equation. 321: 1614: 592:
God will never allow that such a machine be built…because everybody realises that no city would be safe from raids…
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attempted flight using feathers and wings, though no mention of it independent of al-Maqqari has survived.
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that the flapping of wings with the muscle power of the human arm cannot successfully produce flight.
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builds a wooden glider and, launching from a bell tower, glides 200 metres.
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writes the first known technical description of flight, describing an
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demonstrates an artificial pigeon on a wire. It may have been a kite.
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attempts flight by some apparatus from the roof of a mosque in
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explores the desire to fly and the inherent dangers of it.
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Winter, Frank H. (1992). "Who First Flew in a Rocket?",
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publishes a theory and a construction manual for a kite.
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measures the weight of air and demonstrates his famous
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An Illustrated History of Seaplanes and Flying Boats
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Dorling Kindersley. 802:Gunston, Bill (2001). 716:Technology and Culture 694:Technology and Culture 566:Magdeburger Halbkugeln 542:, and also produces a 536:Evangelista Torricelli 852:Timelines in aviation 804:Aviation Year by Year 460:Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi 414:above a burning town. 755:Flight before flying 540:atmospheric pressure 299:Eilmer of Malmesbury 744:Choniates, Historia 490:Lagari Hasan Çelebi 357:design in his book 61:21st century begins 25:Timelineof aviation 1615:Aviation timelines 1454:21st century years 888:Hellenic Air Force 782:Allward, Maurice, 735:Gunston, 2001 p.13 655:Gunston, 2001 p.12 603:Italian physicist 534:Italian physicist 492:flew himself in a 263:Emirate of Córdoba 84:This is a list of 1602: 1601: 871:Military aviation 699:(2), pp. 97–111 562:Otto von Guericke 515:Bishop of Chester 379:Leonardo da Vinci 374:c. 1485 – c. 1513 337:battle of Legnica 318:Manuel I Komnenos 66: 65: 26: 1622: 916:Pre-18th century 845: 838: 831: 822: 817: 795: 780: 774: 764: 758: 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Index

Timelineof aviation
18th century
19th century
20th century
21st century begins
Aviation portal
aviation
Greek myth
Icarus
Daedalus
Bladud
Trinavantum
kites
Bamboo-copter
Archytas
Tarentum
sky lantern
hot air balloon
Wang Mang
Xiong Nu
Yuan Huangtou
Ye
Ahmad al-Maqqari
Abbas Ibn Firnas
Emirate of Córdoba
Jauhari
Nishapur
Khorasan
Eilmer of Malmesbury
Byzantine Empire

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