ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT
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In 1897 he flew in a balloon for the first time and thereafter became one of the foremost balloonists in France.
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In 1905 he built an airplane consisting of three box kites connected to each other by bamboo poles, powered by a steam engine.
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Ader kept working to perfect his airplane, and finally, with the financial backing of the French Army, he built Avion III, a flying machine similar in design to the Eole but with a longer wingspan and two four-blade propellers. On Oct. 14, 1897, Ader tested his Avion at Satory with a military observer team present. Ader claimed that that day he had again flown, but three witnesses disagreed with each other about whether Ader actually took off and flew the Avion before it crashed.
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SAMUEL PIERPONT LANGLEY
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Langley was soon experimenting with models, the first of which were powered by rubber bands
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