Ibn Firnas Airplane and Sketches of his flying machine

Abbas Qasim Ibn Firnas (known in the West as Armen

Firman) was born in 810 AD in Izn-Rand Onda, Al-Andalus
(now Ronda, Spain). He is known as an expert in various
disciplines, apart from being a chemist, he is also a
humanist, inventor, musician, naturalist, poet, and a
technology activist. T as the world's first parachute. In 875,
when he was 65 years old, Ibn Firnas designed and built a flying
machine capable of carrying humans. After the final version was
made, he deliberately invited the people of Cordoba to join him in
witnessing his historic flight at Jabal Al-'Arus (Mount of the
Bride) in the Rusafa area, near Cordoba. The flight, which was
widely witnessed by the public, was very successful.
Unfortunately, because of his poor gliding method, Ibn Firnas was
slammed to the ground with his glider. He also suffered a very
severe back injury. This injury is what makes Ibn Firnas helpless
to carry out the next trial. Abbas Ibn Firnas died in 888, struggling
to heal a back injury he had suffered as a result of failing to test
his glider. Although the flight experiment using a pair of wings
made of feathers and a wooden frame did not work perfectly, Ibn
Firnas' innovative idea was later studied by Roger Bacon 500
years after Firnas laid down the basic theories of his airplane.
Then about 200 years after Bacon (700 years after Ibn Firnas'
trial), the concept and theory of aircraft were developed.
his man of Moroccan descent lived during the reign of the
Umayyad Caliph in Andalusia (Spain). In 852, under the rule
of Caliph Abdul Rahman II, Ibn Firnas decided to 'fly' from
the minarets of the Mezquita Mosque in Cordoba using a
kind of wing of a robe propped up by wood. The artificial
wings apparently made him float for a while in the air and
slowed his fall, he also managed to land even with minor
injuries. The tool used by Ibn Firnas was what became
known as se