An Ara b Aviator.
‘ . A French Oriental student has tliscovered a surprisingly early record of experiments in’aviation. The hereof the enterprise was one Iba-Fimas, an Arab of Spain and physician to the Khalif Abdurrahman 11, who flour.-* ished in the ninth century, states the Westminster Gazette. Kenowncd as nn inventor as well as a doctor, lie devised a clockwork apparatus by j means of which ho “ flattered himself I that he wou’cl be able to rise in the j air like a bird,” and n crowd asseui* ■ bled near Cordova. He did, it seems, I actually get off the ground, but fell \ again with a great thud amid Hie derisive choirs of the populace. The story has just been found and pointed out in an Arabic work by a certain El Makkari,
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2288, 11 March 1912, Page 6
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132An Arab Aviator. Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2288, 11 March 1912, Page 6
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