Vice-Regal Saint: First Powered Flight of the British Empire
On a cold morning in February, the vision of flying a powered aircraft for the first time in Canada and the British Empire came to be when the Silver Dart took to the air above the frozen waters of Baddeck Bay in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. 
This inaugural Canadian aviation feat on February 23rd, 1909 was the result of innovative thinking, entrepreneurial spirit, unrelenting determination and a talented team of experts who had a common vision. When world-renowned and accomplished inventor Alexander Graham Bell decided to turn his gaze toward the skies and find a way for man to fly, it was based on a lifelong fascination with flight.
Read more at the Flight of the Silver Dart Centennial Celebration
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1 comments:
Interesting, but Richard Pearse few 350 yards in his home made mono-pane at Waitohi, New Zealand on 31 March 1902 (ie Before the Wright brothers) and was witnessed by a number of locals.
He did land in a hedge, so disqualified himself from claiming the first powered controlled flight! Perhaps he should have chosen a more open setting!
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