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achieved Ader Aerial Navigation Aero aerodrome Aeronautical Society aerostat aerostation aircraft airplane airship altitude apparatus ascent attempt August aviation balloon began biplane bird bird flight Blanchard Blériot boiler carried Chanute construction Coxwell craft cubic feet Curtiss dirigible distance England experiments Farman feet in diameter feet long flew flies flight France French German glider Hargrave heavier-than-air helicopter Henson horizontal horsepower hydrogen July June kite landing Langley later lift lighter-than-air Lilienthal London Louis Blériot mechanism meters miles per hour minutes monoplane Montgolfier Montgolfière motor October ornithopter Otto Lilienthal parachute Paris passenger patent Pénaud pilot plane pounds propeller proposed record revolutions per minute rudder Samuel Pierpont Langley Santos-Dumont screw Sept September ship Sir George Cayley Sir Hiram speed square feet stability steam engine Stringfellow successful thereafter took Vail Collection voyage Wilbur Wilbur Wright wind wing surface Wright brothers York