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And now, Aviation History.

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Here's Dr. Textbook.

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Hello!

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Since the beginning of time, man has looked up at birds with awe and has wondered,

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why can't we fly?

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Mythology gives us the story of Icarus, who flew too close to the sun,

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melting his wings made of feathers and wax.

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In the 15th century, Leonardo da Vinci made over 150 drawings of his ideas for a flying

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machine, but it was George Cayley who noticed how a bird's wings kept them in the air.

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He made a number of various gliders, testing out different wing shapes and patterns.

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Wilbur and Orville Wright wrote letters to Octave Chenute, who was designing his own

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gliders, and he helped them to understand the forces of flight.

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After many trial runs with various gliders, the Wright brothers made the first successful

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control-powered flight with a pilot on board in 1903.

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So, as a note to all the people who made the first flight possible,

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I will fly across this sand dune in my wings!

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Not a very good idea.

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This has been Aviation History.