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List Of Early Flying MachinesThis is a listing of early flying machines. Claims about what a flying machine is vary in countries and in books and encyclopedias. They all use different criteria when considering, among others, the validity of a claim, and the meaning of the phrase flying machine. These and other controversial issues are discussed in first flying machine. In this list, various advancements are presented, including actual flying machines, prototypes, models, designs or important pieces of literature. But note that some of this information is disputed by some sources. Literature or designs only More than design or literature | Inventor | Accomplishment | Year | | Eilmer of Malmesbury | Single flight of manned glider-wings | 1010 | | Unknown Chinese | Manned kites are common. Reported by Marco Polo | 1290 | | William Samuel Henson | Aerial Steam Carriage | 1842 | | John Stringfellow | Stringfellow Machines | 1848, 1868 | | Sir George Cayley | Cayley Glider, flight of manned glider | 1853 | | Rufus Porter | New York to California Aerial Transport | 1849 | | Jean Marie Le Bris | Artificial Albatross | 1857, 1867 | | Felix and Louis du Temple de la Croix | Temple Steam Powered Monoplane prototype | 1857 - 1877 | | James William Butler and Edmund Edwards | Steam-Jet Dart | 1865 | | Francis Herbert Wenham | Wenham's Aerial Locomotion | 1866 | | Jan Wnek | Loty glider, many flights | 1866 | | Frederick Marriott | Marriott flying machines | 1869 | | Alphonse Penaud | Planophore, Penaud Toy Helicopter | 1871 | | Thomas Moy | Moy Aerial Steamer, | 1875 | | Thomas Moy | The Military Kite | 1879 | | Charles F. Ritchel | Ritchel Hand-powered Airship | 1878 | | Victor Tatin | Tatin flying machines | 1879 | | Massia and Biot | Massia-Biot Glider | 1879? 1887? | | Alexandre Goupil | Goupi Monoplane, La Locomotion Aerienne | 1883 | | John Joseph Montgomery | Montgomery Monoplane and Tandem-Wing Gliders | 1883 - 1911 | | Aleksandr Fyodorovich Mozhaiski | Mozhaiski Monoplane | 1884 | | Pichancourt | Mechanical Birds | 1889 | | Lawrence Hargrave | Hargave flying machines and Box kites | 1889 - 1893 | | Clement Ader | Ader Bat, very low manned flight | 1890 - 1897 | | Chuhachi Ninomiya | Tamamushi model | 1891 | | Otto Lilienthal | Derwitzer Gliders, many flights | 1891 | | Horatio Phillips | Phillips Flying Machine | 1893, 1906 | | Hiram Stevens Maxim | Maxim Biplane | 1894 | | Pablo Suarez | Suarez Glider | 1895 | | Percy Sinclair Pilcher | Pilcher Hawk | 1896 | | Octave Chanute and Augustus Herring | Chanute and Herring Gliding Machines | 1896 | | William Paul Butusov | Albatross Soaring Machine | 1896 | | William Frost | Frost Airship Glider | 1896 | | Samuel Pierpont Langley | Langley Aerodromes | 1896 - 1903 | | Carl Rickard Nyberg | Flugan, very short manned flight | 1897 | | Edson F. Gallaudet | Gallaudet Wing Warping Kite | 1898 | | Lyman Wiswell Gilmore, Jr. | Gilmore Monoplane | 1898 | | Wilhelm Kress | Kress Waterborne Aeroplane | 1901 | | Gustave Whitehead | Whitehead Albatross, Whitehead No. 21 | 1901 | | Richard William Pearse | Pearse Monoplane | 1903 | | Karl Jatho | Jatho Biplane | 1903 | | Guido Dinelli | Dinelli Glider, Aereoplano | 1903, 1904 | | Wright brothers | Wright Flyers, many powered flights | 1903 - 1908 | | Louis Blriot and Gabriel Voisin | Blriot-Voison floatplane glider, biplane | 1905 | | Alberto Santos-Dumont | 14-bis | 1906 | | Traian Vuia | Vuia I, Vuia II monoplanes | 1906 - 1907 | | Louis Blriot | Blriot V, Blriot XI | 1907, 1909 | | Glenn H. Curtiss | June Bug | 1908 | | Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) | Silver Dart | 1909 | | Duigan Brothers | Duigan Pusher Biplane | 1910 | See also External links
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