The first inventors who wanted to fly were some men in Italy. They thought that if they put bird feathers on some wooden wing that they could fly. But it didn't work. They tested it out by jumping off some cliffs and they all died because the wings didn't work. The next idea was this one guy tried to attach some huge balloons to a boat to see if it would fly but that didn't work. The next idea was a peddle powered machine but that didn't work either. The first flying machine was a hot air balloon. And it worked! :)