Invention and Engineering

Early flying machines

Early flying machines include all forms of aircraft studied or constructed before the development of the modern aeroplane by 1910. The story of modern flight begins more than a century before the first successful manned aeroplane, and the earliest aircraft thousands of years before.

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See also

• ▸GWR 6000 Class
• ▸An English Merrymaking a Hundred Years Ago
• ▸Ching Wan Tang

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