[JoeF]

Rick Masters, ... what eagle eye you have! Year 1633 ... glider for a kind of reentry! Lagari Hasan Çelebi

http://lostislamichistory.com/pioneers_of_aviation/
has some art on the story. The Turk of 1633 might have some competition from
the earlier Hezarafen Ahmed Çelebi


Move over a bit, Otto !

RICK FOUND THE FOLLOWING NEAT ARTICLE published in 1986: http://www.newspapers.com/clip/1616229/ ... ly_herald/

[Bob Kuczewski]

RICK FOUND THE FOLLOWING NEAT ARTICLE published in 1986: http://www.newspapers.com/clip/1616229/ ... ly_herald/

The wreck of the steel rocket, which made its flight in 1663, lies in the Bosporus at a depth of 90 feet, not far from shore.

1663