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The Wright brothers became one of the pioneers of the presence of aircraft which later developed as it is today. Similarly, when Yves Rossy and Vince Reffet man who claims the world's first flight using a jet engine.
In the annals of human flight trials, two is not the first time. Anciently mentioned Muslim scientists named Abbas Abu al-Qasim Firnas been conducting experiments similar to the Jetman.
In a note written by the Moroccan historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari mentioned, Ibn Firnas conduct experiments do a flight around the seventh century.
As quoted from various sources, Ibn Firnas fly using wings were covered with feathers. He was inspired by the way the birds fly in the sky.
"At the trial, he put up some wings to its body and is able to fly through the air in a given time period. Several witnesses watched the show, where he flew a short distance," he wrote al-Maqqari, as quoted from Wikipedia.
His first trial that he was a failure, because, like the tail of the bird, she forgot to install the tool for landing. In a second experiment he even suffered severe injuries that led to his declining health.
Western historians, Philip K. Hitti, in his book entitled History of the Arabs call Ibn Firnas as the first human experiment in the world of aviation. And since then a few years later, a number of people doing the same experiment in order to bring humans through the sky.
Despite who the first person who perform flight tests, but Ibn Firnas recognized by a number of scientists from the west. Islamic civilization in the year AD 852 is also supported by some evidence.
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