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[[File:P-51 Mustang edit1.jpg|thumb|300px|[[North American P-51 Mustang]], a [[World War II]] fighter]]
[[File:First flight2.jpg|thumb|300px|The first flight of an airplane, the [[Wright Flyer]] on December 17, 1903]]

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==History==
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[[File:LeBris1868.jpg|thumb|[[Jean-Marie Le Bris|Le Bris]] and his [[glider aircraft|glider]], Albatros II, photographed by [[Nadar (photographer)|Nadar]], 1868]]
[[File:Otto Lilienthal gliding experiment ppmsca.02546.jpg|thumb|[[Otto Lilienthal]] in mid-flight, c. 1895]]

===Antecedents===
Many stories from antiquity involve flight, such as the [[Greek mythology|Greek legend]] of [[Icarus (mythology)|Icarus]] and [[Daedalus]]
 and Carl, and the [[Vimana]] in ancient [[Indian epic poetry|Indian epics]]. Around [[Ancient Greece|400 BC in Greece]], [[Archytas]] was reputed to have designed and built the first artificial, self-propelled flying device, a bird-shaped model propelled by a jet of what was probably steam, said to have flown some {{convert|200|m|sp=us|abbr=on}}.<ref>[[Aulus Gellius]], "Attic Nights", Book X, 12.9 at [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Gellius/10*.html LacusCurtius]</ref><ref(contracted; show full){{Aircraft types (by method of thrust and lift)}}

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