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	Eilmer the Flying Monk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eilmer, like William of Malmesbury who recorded his feats, was a monk at Malmesbury Abbey, which was at that time a very rich establishment both materially and culturally.
		White was the first modern worker to research Eilmer's efforts in depth, considering the cultural situation that could have led him to consider flight, the mechanical and scientific knowledge he would have had and other competing claims to have achieved the first flight using a heavier than air device.
		Eilmer was unfortunate in being thrown about by gusts, causing the precipitate end of his flight and resulting in his breaking both legs on landing.
	www.jane-williams.me.uk /so/cartnav/eilmer.htm (680 words)

	Air Force Link - Eilmer of Malmesbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This monk, known to history as Eilmer of Malmesbury, covered a furlong -- a distance of approximately 600 feet -- before landing heavily and breaking both legs.
		Of more interest to William was that Eilmer, late in his life, was the first person to spot a comet, which people then credited as being an omen of the Norman invasion of England by William the Conqueror.
		Eilmer was an individual of remarkable daring and boldness.
	www.af.mil /history/eilmerofmalmesbury.asp (534 words)

	Eilmer of Malmesbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William records that, in Eilmer's youth, he had read and believed the Greek fable of Daedalus.
		Eilmer typified the inquisitive spirit of medieval enthusiasts who developed small drawstring toy helicopters, windmills, and sophisticated sails for boats.
		William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum / The history of the English kings, ed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eilmer_of_Malmesbury (1321 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Eilmer of Malmesbury - the Flying Monk
		Eilmer of Malmesbury was a man about whom we know virtually nothing.
		From William we know that Eilmer was of 'mature age' in 1066 when Halley's comet made its regular appearance.
		Eilmer is sometimes argued to be the first human to fly.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/getwriting/A1119395 (643 words)

	Eilmer of Malmesbury Summary
		As a nine-year-old boy in 989, Eilmer believed the comet to be a portent of dire happenings, and indeed it was soon followed by a Danish attack in England.
		Lynn White, "Eilmer of Malmesbury, an eleventh-century aviator: a case study of technological innovation, its context and tradition", Medieval religion and technology (1978), pp.
		Richard P. Hallion, "Pioneers of Flight: Eilmer of Malmesbury", 2004.
	www.bookrags.com /Eilmer_of_Malmesbury (1359 words)

	Lyneham Village Online - Information Malmesbury
		Malmesbury lays claim to being the oldest borough in England.
		Eilmer made his wings and launched himself off the abbey roof, breaking both legs but lived to enjoy a long life.
		Mr James Dyson is symptomatic with Malmesbury, having developed the Dual Cyclone™ system, which was the first breakthrough in technology since the invention of the vacuum cleaner in 1901.
	www.lynehamvillage.com /info/towns/malmesbury.html (570 words)

	Athelstan Museum Malmesbury
		The origin of the name Malmesbury was possibly derived from the name of the Celtic monk, Maildulph, in the 7th Century.
		In the 9th Century Malmesbury was chosen as the site of a `Burh' or stronghold by King Alfred the Great, to protect the south against the Danes.
		Malmesbury was an important centre for the woollen cloth industry during the 16th Century.
	www.athelstan-museum.org.uk /opening.php (712 words)

	Eilmer
		Eilmer is famous for his early attempt at flight.
		Eilmer attributed his failure to fly further to forgetting to attach a tail.
		In 1066, Eilmer saw Halley's Comet and prophesied the destruction of the land.
	www.visitnorthwiltshire.co.uk /lt_museums_galleries-eilmer (299 words)

	Malmesbury
		Malmesbury Abbey, a Benedictine Abbey in the 12th century.
		The men of Malmesbury played a great part in defeating the Danes so King Athelstan gave the freemen 700 acres of land, still known as the Kings Heath, to the south-west of the town.
		Eilmer became famous around 1010 for strapping wings to his hands and feet and attempting to fly from the Abbey.
	www.northwiltslink.co.uk /html/malmesbury.html (448 words)

	Malmesbury Town Guide - Historical Timeline
		Malmesbury gets a new secondary school, previously it was spread over two sites in the town.
		Malmesbury Station's hotel and pub, The Flying Monk, was closed down and demolished.
		The then MP for Malmesbury, Walter Powell was a man of adventure...
	malmesbury.homestead.com /TownHistory.html (3701 words)

	Eilmer of Malmesbury
		Eilmer was born in about 980 AD, and is best remembered for making a flight from the tower of Malmesbury Abbey in 1010 when he was a young monk there.
		For more than half a century after these events, the limping Eilmer was a familiar sight around the community of Malmesbury, where he became a distinguished scholar.
		William of Malmesbury, also known as William Somerset, died about 1143 and ranks only after the scholar-monk, the Venerable Bede, as the greatest of the English medieval historians.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/bodhidharma/monk.html (584 words)

	The Importance of Having Friends in High Places - Christian Business
		This privilege belongs to the town of Malmesbury, Wiltshire, in Great Britain and they’ve held this record since the early part of the eleventh century.
		Eilmer (or Oliver) of Malmesbury glided over 600 feet before crashing, breaking both his legs in the process.
		This might be seen as the church’s attempt to stifle science, or it might be seen as a prudent pastor’s decision to protect the life of an adventuresome parishioner.
	www.businessreform.com /Resource.php?ResourceID=6893 (561 words)

	Eilmer of Malmesbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He describes how Eilmer fastened wings to his arms and his feet, and launched himself from the top of a tower, either a Saxon watchtower, or the old Abbey.
		The spelling taken on this occasion is that used by William of Malmesbury.
		However The Friends of Malmesbury Abbey have included Eilmer in their Malmesbury Abbey Popular History Series, which is available from the Abbey Bookshop.
	www.eilmer.co.uk /eilmer-biog.htm (472 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : First Flights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He met his death attempting to fly with the aid of an unknown apparatus from the roof of the old mosque of Nishapur in Khorosan.
		In 1010 came the flight of Eilmer of Malmesbury, a British Benedictine monk.
		Eilmer's first—and last—flight featured a set of rigid wings he had built of an unknown substance.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/196401/first.flights.htm (1232 words)

	No. 3: The Flying Monk
		In fact, the story is given credence by that fact that Eilmer eventually crashed because his glider didn't have a tail to provide lateral stability.
		An important thing about Eilmer's and Ibn Firnas's inventions of the glider is that both occurred in intellectual environments that fostered invention.
		White, L., Jr., Eilmer of Malmesbury, An Eleventh Century Aviator.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi3.htm (435 words)

	Historical Gallery
		Hallion's command of his material is as breathtaking as the feats of the early jumpers, gliders and aviators he writes about, and his book is enlivened by an argosy of great stories and colorful, pithy quotes culled from a lifetime's study.
		Hallion visits Malmesbury, expertly re-imagines Eilmer's brave jump within the scanty parameters of the information available and creates a vivid sense of the flying monk's accomplishment.
		Nine hundred years after Eilmer's leap from Malmesbury Abbey, the dream of flight still exerted a passionate hold on the human imagination.
	www.artukraine.com /historical/sikorsky2.htm (1117 words)

	Books about Malmesbury
		Mike Fenton: The Malmesbury Branch published by Wild Swan Publications Ltd. "A railway history which is also a social document and will be of interest to railway enthusiasts, historians and Wiltshire folk." 0 906867 88 6.
		This is a personal account of the history of the town written in 1977 when the author was in his 80th year.
		In addition The Friends of Malmesbury Abbey have produced a Malmesbury Abbey Popular History Series available from the Abbey Bookshop at £1 each.
	www.malmesbury.co.uk /malmesbury/books.htm (350 words)

	Yoga Malmesbury at Local.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Collect a free lesson voucher from the TIC in Malmesbury...
		A selection of articles related to William of Malmesbury...
		A selection of articles related to Eilmer of Malmesbury...
	www.local.co.uk /Malmesbury/Yoga (167 words)

	Malmesbury Internet Ltd, letting the internet work for you
		Malmesbury Internet was established in 2000 with three key aims:
		Malmesbury Internet Ltd. offer a wide range of web based products, providing value-for-money options for small business internet needs.
		In early 2006, Malmesbury Internet Ltd became a founder member of the IT and Web Network.
	www.malmesburyinternet.co.uk (111 words)

	Malmesbury Abbey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nearby Calcot Manor was an annex of Kingswood Abbey and suffered a similar privatisation.
		Today Malmsbury Abbey is in full use as the parish church of Malmesbury, in the Diocese of Bristol.
		During the English Civil War it was the site of a massacre, reflecting heavy combat in this region of Gloucestershire; Beverston Castle, a few miles north, was the site of two Civil War battles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malmesbury_Abbey (553 words)

	Parachuting Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He himself used to say that the cause of his failure was forgetting to put a tail on the back part.
		If Firnas failed because he didn't have himself a tail to land on, Eilmer crashed because he didn't have a tail to provide lateral stability.
		White, L., Jr., "Eilmer of Malmesbury, An Eleventh Century Aviator," Medieval Religion and Technology.
	www.parachuting.com /history/women.html (4222 words)

	Hippocampus-Paratext
		for wings: "Eilmer of Malmesbury was one of the very first people ever to attempt flying--in any event, one of the first we know of.
		William (of Malmesbury) writes that this happened in Eilmer's 'early youth'--which should have been around the year 1000, probably just at the beginning of the 11th century.
		And for that short moment of freedom he paid by sitting crippled in a monastery for sixty years or more....He sat there in his chair, unable to move, but in his imagination he roamed freely through space, all the way out to the ends of the universe.
	www.rhizomes.net /issue1/skull/para-1.htm (5146 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Flying Monk
		Of course, comets are not terribly unusual sights in the course of a lifetime; Eilmer may have seen a different comet earlier, and so, been much younger than almost 90 in 1066 when he saw Halley's return.
		As William describes it, as he chronicles the succession to the French throne:
		But sometimes it is fun to be "embracing the fable as the truth."
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1107802 (640 words)

	Malmesbury Internet Ltd
		He has lived in Malmesbury since 1996, and quickly grew to like the place, with its rich traditions and at the same time a determination not to live in the past.
		Since April 2001 he has been a churchwarden of Malmesbury Abbey, where he also sings bass in the choir.
		Several people have already made valuable contributions in putting Malmesbury on the internet, and the intention of this site is to combine the best elements and give all the people of the town, whether computer literate or not, a chance to take advantage of the benefits offered by the world-wide web.
	www.eilmer.co.uk /mil.htm (336 words)

	Setting The Benchmark In Human Flight - MSN Lifestyle: Men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For centuries before ungainly "aeroplanes" arrived on the scene, people tried to fly wearing wings more like those used by Icarus--with similarly dire results.
		Take, for instance, Eilmer of Malmesbury, "The Flying Monk" of the 11th century, who leapt from a monastery tower and reportedly flew for 240-odd yards before falling to the earth and breaking both legs.
		Or mathematician Giovanni Battista Danti of Perugia, who in the 15th century strapped on a pair of wood and feather wings, and flew over the town square before crashing into the roof of St. Mary's church and breaking a leg.
	men.msn.com /articlepm.aspx?cp-documentid=760925 (1216 words)

	The 'Earth Ecology' History of Flight 500 B.C. - 1903
		Before Le Bris, several human gliders had been made (by the ancient Chinese, Abbas Ibn Firnas in the 9th century, Eilmer of Malmesbury in the 11th century, and George Cayley in 1853), but they were all non-powered.
		This hang-glider was a major achievement for the time, where many engineers still struggled with "heavier than air"-developments of non-motorised airvehicles.
		* To perform the manoeuvre of gliding downward against the breeze, utilizing both gravity and the wind, Eilmer employed an apparatus somewhat resembling a gliding bird.
	www.westvegas.com /pre_wright_bros_flight.html (14857 words)

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