Eilmer of Malmesbury: The First European to Fly in the 11th Century- Malmesbury Abbey

Eilmer of Malmesbury was Europe's first aviator around 1005-1010 AD.

William of Malmesbury wrote about 100 years after the event in 'Deeds of the English Kings':
“He was a man of good learning for those times; of mature ge and in his early youth had hazarded an attempt of singular temerity; he had by some contrivance fastened to his
hands and feet in ordet that he night fly asly in
Daedalus, and collecting the air, on the summit of a tower, had flown for a distance of a furlong (200m); but agitated by the violence of the wind and a current of air, as well as the consciousness of his rash attempt, he fell and broke both his legs, and was lame ever after.
He used to relate as the cause of the failure that he had forgotten to provide himself with a tail!”

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