The fall of Icarus
Click on the numbers to read what was happening when Icarus fell in the sea. Pieter Brueghel – Landscape with the Fall of Icarus created in 1558. Oil on canvas,
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Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (1889 – 1972) was a Russian pioneer of aviation who designed the first four-engine aeroplanes and the first modern helicopter. Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740 – 1810)...
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The Wright Brothers
Do you ever wonder how aeroplanes fly? Do you ever wish you could fly through the clouds? More than 100 years ago Orville and Wilbur Wright had the same wish!
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