An unassuming UK meadow was once the scene of James Radley making his first flight on April 19, 1910 - lasting 23 minutes as he made 16 circuits over crowds of adoring spectators
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History of flight - Aviation Pioneers, Wright Brothers, Hot Air Balloons: The work of the Wright brothers inspired an entire generation of flying-machine experimenters in Europe and the Americas. The Brazilian experimenter Alberto Santos-Dumont, for instance, made the first public flight in Europe in 1906 in his 14-bis. Frenchman Henri Farman made his first flight the following year in the Farman III, a machine built by Gabriel Voisin. Farman also completed the first European circular flight of at least 1 km (0.62 mile) early in 1908. On July 4, 1908, the American Glenn Hammond Curtiss, a leading member of the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), organized by Alexander Graham Bell, won the
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