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Aviation, Space

A sheep, duck and rooster were the first living creatures to fly in a man-made craft at Versailles, France, more than a century and half ago. The three were placed in a specially constructed wicker cage suspended from a large hot-air balloon. Cut loose, the gasbag ascended to about 1,400 feet, drifted two or three miles and landed at the edge of a woods. Its occupants were none the worse for their aerial voyage except that the sheep had stepped on the rooster. Otherwise, ballooning was quite safe. So they said at any rate.
Two months later, the Marquias' Arlandes and a Pilatre de Rosier became the world's first human aeronauts when they completed a similar flight. But the fact that the animal and two fowls survived their trip without injury had given man the courage to face the unknown atmosphere.
Douglas J. Ingells; They Tamed the Sky (Appleton-Century Co.)

Leonardo Da Vinci. when he saw the early flying machine he had built crash to the earth, said:``If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other, It shall be done. The spirit cannot lie; and man, who shall know all, and who shall have wings, shall indeed be as a god.''

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.
Eddie Rickenbacker

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