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	Silver Dart
		Silver Dart, the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to fly in Canada; designed and built by the Aerial Experiment Assn (Oct 1907-Mar 1909) under Alexander Graham BELL, a flight enthusiast since boyhood.
		The Silver Dart flew more than 200 times before being damaged beyond repair upon landing in the soft sand of Petawawa, Ont, during military trials in early Aug 1909.
		A full-scale model of the Silver Dart may be found in Ottawa's National Aviation Museum.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007399 (263 words)

	FlightDeck Milestones: A.E.A. Silver Dart
		The original Silver Dart was the fruit of the Aerial Experiment Association formed under the tutelage of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.
		By the time the Silver Dart was constructed in 1908, it was the AEA's fourth flying machine, or aerodrome as Bell termed it.
		The Silver Dart was made of steel tube, bamboo, friction tape, wire, wood, had no brakes, and was covered with rubberized silk balloon-cloth.
	www.exn.ca /FlightDeck/Aircraft/Milestones/silverdart.cfm (670 words)

	AEA Silver Dart -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Silver Dart (or Aerodrome #4) was an early aircraft which was flown off the ice at (Click link for more info and facts about Baddeck, Nova Scotia) Baddeck, Nova Scotia on February 23, (Click link for more info and facts about 1909) 1909.
		The original Silver Dart was the fruit of the (Click link for more info and facts about Aerial Experiment Association) Aerial Experiment Association formed under the guidance of (United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922)) Alexander Graham Bell.
		The frame and structure of the Silver Dart was made of steel tube, (Woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture) bamboo, friction tape, wire, and wood.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ae/aea_silver_dart2.htm (630 words)

	Silver Dart
		The Silver Dart was the first airplane to fly in Canada and in the British Empire.
		The Silver Dart's historic flight took place on February 23, 1909, over the frozen Bras d'Or Lake at Baddeck Bay on Cape Breton Island, N.S. The plane was towed onto the ice by a one-horse sleigh, and the propeller was turned by hand to start the engine.
		The Silver Dart was one of the world's earliest planes.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=J0007399 (273 words)

	John Alexander Douglas McCurdy - FlightDeck's Great Aviators
		Like most flying machines of its time, the Silver Dart had relatively poor control - even though it was one of the finest pioneer machines built, and incorporated all the lessons learned from its three preceding experimental aircraft built by the Aerial Experiment Association (A.E.A.) to which young McCurdy belonged.
		McCurdy in the Silver Dart on the first heavier-than-air, powered flight in Canada and the British empire.
		And during the fifth flight of the day, while McCurdy was coming down for a landing with the setting sun blazing in his eyes, the Silver Dart struck a small rise in the ground and crashed.
	www.exn.ca /FlightDeck/Aviators/mccurdy.cfm (1034 words)

	FlightDeck Milestones: A.E.A. Silver Dart
		The original Silver Dart was the fruit of the Aerial Experiment Association formed under the tutelage of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.
		By the time the Silver Dart was constructed in 1908, it was the AEA's fourth flying machine, or aerodrome as Bell termed it.
		The Silver Dart was made of steel tube, bamboo, friction tape, wire, wood, had no brakes, and was covered with rubberized silk balloon-cloth.
	exn.ca /FlightDeck/Aircraft/Milestones/silverdart.cfm (678 words)

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