As early as November 1918, just when the First World War ended, Pierre Georges Latécoère, a French Businessman and industrialist imagined an airline from France to reach Spain. This was later to be extended to Morocco through the signing on the 10th of March 1919, of an agreement for the delivery of mail between Paris and Rabat. It was further extended to Casablanca.
Since the first flying machine, the airplane has not only come a long way, but has fundamentally revolutionized human life. Let us take a look back on the history of the flying machine.
It's on Thursday, December 17, 1903 date during which the Wright brothers succeeded for the first time, the first machine powered flight. It was the Flyer.
Many Cameroonians no longer remember Gilles Njamkepo. Yet, not only is he the first Cameroonian engineer of civil aviation, but equally the first Cameroonian Director of Federal Civil Aviation (DACF).
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