The Forgotten First Pilot
Assalamualaikum wbt. Hello! 💓 Pilot? Engineer? In his glory era. But as time goes by, we can say so many of us did not him. The truth of forgotten Islamic history. Men have dreamed of flying ever since they learned to walk. History is full of legends and fables of men trying to fly. Icarus being the most famous who flew to close to the sun which melted the wax holding his feathers and he fell into the sea and drowned. The first successful attempt at flight was done by the Chinese who flew kites around the 5 th century BCE but the first successful attempt at human flight was accomplished by a Muslim, Abbas ibn Firnas in 875 CE in the city of Qutuba Al-Andalus (Cordoba, Spain). Abbas Ibn Firnas was born in Izn-Rand Onda Al-Andalus (today Ronda Spain) but lived in the Emirate of Cordoba which was one of the major centers of learning in the Muslim world. He was a polymath: an inventor, engineer, aviator, physician, Arabic poet, and Andalusian musician. The stories say that Ibn Firnas w
