To Westerners, the first flyers were Icarus and his father Daedalus. In Greek mythology, both men lived fifteen hundred years before Christ and flew from Crete to escape King Minos. Research has shown that this story could be based on fact and it might be possible to paraglide or hang glide from Crete to the nearest island some 17 miles away. This is a project of discovery, potentially rewriting the history of flight.
