Flying Attempts
There have been many failed attempts at flying? There have been so many attempts out there and some of them you think could perhaps work and some wouldn't work even with a plane thrown into the mix.
Icarus
Although this one is off course just a myth it is still a pretty stupid idea. Flying really high into the air with feathers put together from wax is really not the best idea to take on. Being any normal son he didn't listen to his father and he took to the skies, higher and higher. A failed attempt at flying that is for sure.
The Ceiling Fan Man
There was a guy (from the US of course) that actually tried to fly by parting together parts from a ceiling fan and mixing together parts from a humidifier and dehumidifier and tried to fly by jumping out of his bedroom window. Well as you can imagine it all went a bit wrong for this guy, he ended up breaking his arm and the ceiling fan messed his leg up a bit.
Balloons
This method has featured in many things and the most recent has to be Pixar's 2009 film UP where an entire house is lifted up by a lot of balloons.
This does sound stupid of course but it does work and it has been proved, it would take millions of balloons to lift a house but it would work.
Other than the balloons there have been attempts that have sounded crazy that have really worked out. The craziest yet most important one was the worlds first ever flight. Without this event there would not be a chance that we would be able to fly all around the world as we do today.
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