that the
             man should first betake himself and machine to the top of a hill
             and fly with a downward as well as a forward motion. Although
             Lilienthal must have thought the conditions were rather hard,
             he nevertheless accepted them till something better should turn
             up; and in this manner he made some two thousand flights, in a
             few cases landing at a point more than 1,000 feet distant from
             the place he started. Lilienthal not just thought, but acted,
             which doing this, he probably made the greatest contribution to
             the solution of the flying problem that has ever been made by
             any one man.Lilienthal died in 1896. Herr Lilienthal was
             followed by Mr. Pilcher, a young English engineer and also
             followed by Mr. Chalute. The Pilcher machine was similar to
             that of Lilienthal. On one occasion, while exhibiting the flight
             of his machine to several members of the Aeronautical Society
             of Great Britain, it suddenly collapsed and fell to the ground.
             Octave Chanute was born in France in 1832 and died in
             1910. He designed the first railroad bridge over ther Missouri
             River & designed the Union Stockyards in Chicago & Kansas
             City. Chanutes machines marked a great advance. The guiding
             of the machine was done by a slight movement of the operator's
             body toward the direction in which it was desired that the
             Since then further advances have been made by two
             gentlemen from Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Wilbur Wright and Mr.
             Orville Wright. Which tried numerous experments & found
             numerous results in october of 1900. They conducted the
             experments on the shore of North Carolina. They designed and
             built their own glider which was finished on July 27, 1901.
             >From all their experments they found out how to fly by solveing
             problems that gliders & other Engineers had.
             In 1901, Glenn Hammond Curtiss had established a
             motorcycle manufacturing company. In time he would have a
             cha...