Category Archives: History

Gossamer Albatross, designed by Paul MacCready and piloted by Bryan Allen, becomes the world’s 1st human powered aircraft to fly across the English Channel on the 12th of June 1979.

To fly like a bird, an ability mankind has dreamed of throughout time. Even today with airline flights to virtually any location on earth, a common-place thing, the yearning for personal flight still persists.  The ancient world has many references to flight as being something for the Gods but not mortals. Mythological stories of flight…