Multiple choice general knowledge

The first hand glider was designed by...?

  1. Leonardo DaVinci

  2. The Wright brothers

  3. Francis Rogallo

  4. Galileo
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Explanation

Leonardo da Vinci designed ornithopter and flying machine concepts in the late 15th century, including early hang glider-like designs in his notebooks. While Otto Lilienthal built the first practical hang gliders in the 1890s, da Vinci's 15th-century conceptual designs qualify as 'first' in terms of design origination.

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