[Mike Darancette]

Firnas is “said to be the first person who tried to fly.

I'm sure the first human to try to fly was a resident of Africa's Rift Valley given the choice between leopard or cliff.

[Snowyman]

Equipped with a glider with wooden struts, he managed to fly and landed more or less unharmed.

Yes and in 1955 when my cousin first saw Superman on my uncle's new TV, he tied a towel around his neck and glided down the stairwell . He managed to fly between bumps and landed more, mostly more , and not so much less , unharmed . But there where periods of time that he did fly and he did it without a tail .

(true story, he was 7 )