About one thousand years before Jesus was born, people in china used kites to lift people up.About 900 years later an english king was the first person who tried to fly using wings About 500 years ago. Leonardo da vinci design heaps of different kind of planes Around 1700 there was the first airship. It was flown for the King of Portugal. In 1843, George Cayley discovered the four forces of flight. Sixty years later a inventor who was known as “the flying man”. He invents and flies a biplane glider. In 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first flight in a flying machine in America. Fast-forward 40 years. a man made his own jet pack In the same year someone also made a car that can fly.