George Cayley was this English guy, the
6th Baronet of Bromptom. In 1853 he built a glider that
was basically a kayak on wheels dangling under a big canvas kite the
shape of a manta ray. He got his butler to sit in it and pushed it
off a hill for a successful flight across Brompton Dale. If they made
a biopic about this guy, he would fly it himself, but George Cayley
was 79 years old at the time and also a Baronet, a level of social
standing that exempts one from hurtling through the air in a canoe.
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