Who attempted first scientific flight?

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Case of Archytas (Greek: 428–347 BC) can be quoted but it was more myth then a fact and not have real enough scientific details.

Abbas Ibn Firnas (810–887 A.D.), also known as Abbas Qasim Ibn Firnas. He was an Andalusian polymath: an inventor, engineer, aviator, physician, Arabic poet, and Andalusian musician. Of Berber descent, he was born in Izn-Rand Onda, Al-Andalus (today's Ronda, Spain), and lived in the Emirate of Córdoba. He is known for an early attempt at aviation.

He designed a water clock called Al-Maqata. He also devised means of manufacturing colorless glass by additions to the frit from which it was produced, and he developed a chain of rings that could be used to display the motions of the planets and stars.

Archytas (Greek: 428–347 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and strategist, described in the writings of Aulus Gellius five centuries after him, was reputed to have designed and built the first artificial, self-propelled flying device, a bird-shaped model propelled by a jet of what was probably steam, said to have actually flown some 200 meters.

This machine, was called The Pigeon.

Abbas ibn Fernas !! the muslim scientist

chinese who used rockets to fly.