That time Canada's "birdman" crashed in Toronto

... from the sky into a freezing ocean. Their first successful flight of a powered aircraft took place in Hammondsport, New York on 12 March, 1908. The plane, named the Red Wing, flew a handful of times for about a week before it was destroyed in a ...

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