(1) Someone who operates an aircraft
(1) Cartier designed the first wristwatch so the aeronaut could check the time without removing his hands from the controls.
(2) After experimenting for several years, the young aeronaut was about to make - perhaps - the first powered airplane flight in history.
(3) Orville is the world's first aeronaut in a short flight lasting just 12 seconds and covering 37 metres.
(4) The aeronauts tested a three-winged glider, but when the lower wing kept catching on the dunes Avery removed it.
(5) Ironically, the dunes remaining are not the ones from which the famous aeronauts tried their flying machines.
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