Remembering the Pioneers

Neil J Armstrong, BASc, was born in Alvinston, Ontario on April 15, 1920.

The remarkable story of the "luckiest man alive."

Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe was responsible for designing the first aircraft with an enclosed cabin and patented the control column. During World War I, thousands of AVRO 504 biplanes served in combat and as training aircraft.

Many inventors, including the Wright brothers, applied the principles discovered in Horatio Philips' experiments.