Talk:Thomas Selfridge

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Why all the sections?--Buckboard 10:06, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

The first?
Not sure of the accuracy of this: "This was the first recorded flight carrying a passenger of any heavier-than-air craft in Canada." Laurence Lesh of Montreal "flew" a towed glider in August 1907, and gliders are heavier-than-air craft. Granted the glider was tethered, but it still flew with him onboard. See and .--  BC  talk to me  01:05, 22 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Don't think this counts. Several people, including the Wright Brothers, experimented with gliders, both towed and tethered before 1907. Ckruschke (talk) 17:53, 23 January 2013 (UTC)Ckruschke

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