The Silver Dart (or Aerodrome #4) was a derivative of an early aircraft built by a Canadian/U.S. team, which after many successful flights in Hammondsport, New York, earlier in 1908, was dismantled and shipped to Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

Feb 7, 2006 · The Silver Dart is recognized as the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to fly in Canada. J.A.D. McCurdy successfully piloted the aircraft from Baddeck B...

Feb 22, 2012 · The spectators gawked as the Silver Dart rose gracefully into the air. Only five years after the secretive Wright brothers had first taken flight at Kitty Hawk, it was the first time anyone had seen such a sight, not only in Canada, but anywhere in the British Empire.

Feb 9, 2009 · Only 66 years separate American astronaut Neil Armstrong’s memorable moonscape statement from the first flights of Orville and Wilbur Wright. When engine-powered flight began with the Wright brothers on an isolated North Carolina beach in 1903, it developed very quickly. Less than six years later, Henri Blériot flew across the English Channel.

Feb 21, 2024 · On Feb. 23, 1909, the Royal Canadian Air Force’s pathway to the stars began to take shape; the first flight of a powered, heavier-than-air, controlled airplane in Canada—the Silver Dart—was a success. Marking its 115th anniversary this year, the Silver Dart held the promise of a new future for Canada’s military: the possibility of an ...

Silver Dart, the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to fly in Canada; designed and built by the Aerial Experiment Assn (Oct 1907-Mar 1909) under Alexander Graham BELL, a flight enthusiast since boyhood.

The museum’s Silver Dart is an airworthy replica built by RCAF volunteers. The idea of building and flying a replica aircraft on the fiftieth anniversary of the Silver Dart was first proposed by Lionel McCaffrey, RCAF.

Silver Dart (spacecraft) - A privately funded rocket and space travel project founded by London, Ontario based firm PlanetSpace.

Mar 8, 2016 · The Silver Dart made the first powered flight in Canada when it lifted off the frozen surface of Bras d’Or Lake on February 23, 1909. Piloted by J. A. D. McCurdy, the Silver Dart’s designer, the flight took place at Alexander Graham Bell’s retreat in Baddeck, on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.

The first powered flight on Canadian soil took place in Nova Scotia, on 23 February 1909, when J.A.D. McCurdy flew the Silver Dart aircraft over the ice of Baddeck Bay for a distance of 800 metres and at nine-metre altitude in 48 seconds.