![]() In 559 AD, Yuan Huangtou is said to have landed safely from an enforced tower jump. In the 1st century AD, Chinese Emperor Wang Mang recruited a specialist scout to be bound with bird feathers he is claimed to have glided about 100 meters. During this early period physical issues of lift, stability, and control were not understood, and most attempts ended in serious injury or death. ![]() Įventually some tried to build flying devices, such as birdlike wings, and to fly by jumping off a tower, hill, or cliff. According to Gellius, this machine, which its inventor called The Pigeon (Greek: Περιστέρα "Peristera"), was suspended on a wire or pivot for its "flight" and was powered by a "concealed aura or spirit". Stained glass depiction of Eilmer of MalmesburyĪccording to Aulus Gellius, the Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and strategist Archytas (428–347 BC) was reputed to have designed and built the first artificial, self-propelled flying device, a bird-shaped model propelled by a jet of what was probably steam, said to have actually flown some 200 metres around 400 BC.
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