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FIRST PEOPLE TO PILOT HEAVIER-THAN-AIRCRAFT

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FIRST PEOPLE TO PILOT HEAVIER-THAN-AIRCRAFT :-

1. ORVILLE WRIGHT (1871-1948, USA) 

    KITTY HAWK, NORTH CAROLINE, USA

     AIRCRAFT - WRIGHT FLYER 1 
     APP. DISTANCE - 37 MILES
     DATE - 17 DECEMBER 1903

2. WILBUR WRIGHT (1867-1912, USA)  

    KITTY HAWK, NORTH CAROLINE, USA

     AIRCRAFT - WRIGHT FLYER 1 
     APP. DISTANCE - 37 MILES
     DATE - 17 DECEMBER 1903
WRIGHT BROTHERS

3. JACOB CHRISTIAN HANSEN ELLEHAMMER  (1871-1946, DENMARK), 

    LINDHOLM, DENMARK 

     AIRCRAFT - ELLEHAMMER
     APP. DISTANCE - 42
     DATE - 12 SEPTEMBER 1906

4. ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT (1873-1932, BRAZIL)

    BAGATELLE, PARIS, FRANCE

     AIRCRAFT - NO.14-BIS
     APP. DISTANCE - 60
     DATE - 23 OCTOBER 1906

5. CHARLES VOISIN (1882-1912, FRANCE)  

    BAGATELLE, PARIS, FRANCE

     AIRCRAFT - VOISIN DELAGRANGE 1
     APP. DISTANCE - 60
     DATE - 30 MARCH 1907

6. ROBERT ESNAULT-PELTERIE (1881-1957, FRANCE)  

    ISSY LES MOULINEAUX, PARIS, FRANCE

     AIRCRAFT - REP NO.1
     APP. DISTANCE - 100
     DATE - 10 OCTOBER 1907

7. HENRI FARMAN (1874-1958, UK, later FRANCE)  

    ISSY LES MOULINEAUX, PARIS, FRANCE

    AIRCRAFT - VOISIN-FARMAN 1-BIS
    APP. DISTANCE - 712
    DATE - 26 OCTOBER 1907

8. FERDINAND LEON DELAGRANGE (1873-1910, FRANCE) 

    ISSY LES MOULINEAUX, PARIS, FRANCE

    AIRCRAFT - VOISIN DELAGRANGE 1 
    APP. DISTANCE - 100
    DATE - 5 NOVEMBER 1907

9. COMTE HENRI DE LA VAULX (1870-1930, FRANCE) 

    St CYR, FRANCE

    AIRCRAFT -ANTOINETTE
    APP. DISTANCE - 70
    DATE - 19 NOVEMBER 1907

10. ALFRED DE PISCHOFF (1882-1922, HUNGARY) 

     ISSY LES MOULINEAUX, PARIS, FRANCE

     AIRCRAFT -ANZANI
     APP. DISTANCE - 50 - 100
     DATE - 12 DECEMBER 1907


     While most of the fliers listed flew on numerous subsequent occasions and broke their first-time records, most other 'flights' of the 1906-08 period were uncontrolled or no more than short hops of a few seconds' duration, such as those of Hungarian Trajan Vuia in 1907-08, HORATIA PHILLIPS - who claimed to have flown 152 m (500 ft) at Norbury, England, in 1907 - and Danish Jabob Christian Ellehammer, who hopped 176 m (578 ft) on 14 January 1908 and is credited with the first ever hop-flight in Germany, at kiel on 28 June 1908. Meanwhile, the Wrights were so far in advance of their competitors that they  were flying under full control for more than an hour and over distances of 80 km French aviator THERESE PELTIER became the first female air passenger when she accompanied  LEON DELAGRANGE in a Voisin flight of 200 m in Italy on 8 July 1908.