Renaissance

In the Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci designed several aircraft, including the first "Helicopter". None of the models would be flugtauglich, but the creative approaches and in particular the engineering methodology had pioneered value, while da Vinci with his thoughts on aviation "far ahead of time" was. Until the end of the 19th Century da Vinci's designs were rediscovered, but had no breakthrough influence on the development of the first airplanes. It will, however, suspects that the Augsburg shoemaker Salomon Idler on Leonardo's plans had when he built his flying apparatus.