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Langley's model launched via catapult from housboat; complete failure
Alexander Graham Bell photographed |
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| Signal Corps (ARMY) most advanced group |
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| Bell tells the AEA to put on White Wing for stability; Wrights claim patent infringement |
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| Langley heads this and draws sunspots |
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mathematiican from Alexandria
heated air displaces cooler air and floats |
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| Builds dirigible (California Arrow) with Curtiss engine and receives contract with ARMY |
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Lincoln created during Civil War with Thaddeus Lowe in charge
Unsuccesful aside from Battle of Fair Oaks
"Union"
portable gas generator |
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| unsuccessfully builds rotary engine for Langley |
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| Balloon Corps success - forewarn |
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flies dirigible over D.C.
Travels from Montreal - Mexico City
Curtiss' exhibition team (daredevil)- loops |
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tetrahedron kites
forms Aerial Experiment Association
Red Wing
Aileron |
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Crosses English Channel with Jeffries
first manned free flight Hydrogen balloon |
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| Board of Ordnance & Fortification |
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fund Langley but wastes $50,000
will not fund Wrights |
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| Hargrave's design implemented by Chanute and Herring |
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| Capper (Lieutenant Colonel John Edward) |
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Britian
Sees potential in Wrights aircraft |
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tethered hot air balloon w/ iron furnace
charges money
Edward Warren - first American to fly
Wind knocks him out; balloon blows |
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first solo manned Hydrogen balloon
rubber coating; ballast |
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| Manufacturers Aircraft Association give Wrights/Curtiss money for each plane until they net $2M and then their patents are not in affect |
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| Flying boat purchased by the NAVY |
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| Deutsche-Archdeacon Prize |
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| first person to fly a complete circle in a powered aircraft of one kilometer |
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Wright method of flight training
instructor/student side by side
each with own stick for elevator |
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takes off U.S.S. Bermingham
lands on U.S.S. Pennsylavnia |
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| interrupter gear (machine gun stops when propeller is in front) |
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interrupter gear
revolutionizes air combat
German advantage |
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| goes to France with John Adams to view their balloons and sees potential |
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developed the "Wedge"
bullets are deflected |
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Hydrogen balloon launched by French
blows up |
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pilot who sets speed record
Curtiss wins with 47 mph |
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British 126' bomber
sinks Turkish destroyer |
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Percy Pilcer
first wheeled undercarriage with springs |
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flies Chanute's glider (Lilienthal design)
puts engine on box biplane
Redesigns Langley's Aerodrome
company with Curtiss
claims he has patents |
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Wrights test here (Ohio)
isolated
not favorable winds |
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first manned balloon flight by Britain
first American to do free flight
crosses English channel with Blanchard |
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Wright patent is valid
Herring/Curtiss stop making planes |
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Curtiss
Scientific American Trophy
3,000' and 1.25 miles in 90 s |
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| German all metal monoplane |
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| Wrights fly here at Kill Devil hill in 1900, 1902, and 1903 |
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U.S. Army Balloon Corps
contract to Wrights
$25,000 for Model A |
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| studies birds and has bird like devices |
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the faster a surface moves through the air, the less power is needed
(against Newton) |
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Orville proves all skeptics wrong
Mrs. Berg flies as passenger |
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creates balloons
Prevailing wind theory
flies Enterprise from Cincinnati to hostile South Caroline
In charge of balloon corps |
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radial engine for Langley
fails at Great Aerodrome
knows nothing of flight controls |
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heat made objects rise
launched balloon to 16,000'
animals in balloon to 1,500'
manned flight with Rozier (first) |
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| purchases balloon from John Wise and sees St. Elmo's Fire and the Great Lakes |
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| National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
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| precursor to NASA that performs scientific testing on aeronautics |
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| Curtiss sets speed record of 137 mph on motorcycle |
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| rubber band powered helicopters for Langley |
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| Progress in Flying Machines |
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Aerial Experiment Association
similar to the Wrights
claims first heavier than air flight |
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first manned flight on a balloon with Montgolfier brothers
Hydrogen balloon blows up |
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Observes Wrights in Model A for U.S. Army
flies and dies with Orville during crash
Aerial Experiment Association |
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Wright's friend
builds engine made out of common goods |
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| Langley convinces him to build first manned aircraft capable of waging war |
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"The War in the Air"
airships are horrible and zeppelins will destroy NYC |
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| Langely built large one to test aerodynamic surfaces |
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predecessor to aileron |
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congress wont fund to cross Atlantic
sells balloon to Mountain |
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investigation what Europeans are doing
U.S. is far behind in aircraft |
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| most reliable powerplant in the world |
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racecar driver who puts together a pursuit squadron in WWI
Trained at Issoudon with Lufbury |
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| American volunteers who fly under the command of French Officers during WWI |
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shoots down tethered balloons with incendiary bullets
becomes a one man machine
medal of honor |
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takes command of air service during WWI
Launches offensives at end of WWI (air depots; Saint Mihiel) |
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| African American woman who received flight training in France and flies with Hubert Fauntleroy Julian |
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| Offers reward to cross Atlantic Ocean |
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builds plane for Lindbergh to cross Atlantic
Spirit of St. Louis (M-2): single engine |
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| purchases a Fokker tri-motor and sponsors Stultz, Gordon and Earhart to cross Atlantic |
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| Earhart solos in this plane across the Atlantic |
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| Aeronautical Commission of the Peace Conference |
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regulates aerial navigation
transit and landing rights through treaties
international airways
manifest and bill of lady
no munitions for commercial aircraft |
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operates aircraft company (CHI - NY)
L-2 and L-4
first multi-engine planes for passengers |
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| Aeromarine West Indies Airway |
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"Highball Express"
Key West - Havana
Curtiss Flying Boats
Prohibition to get people drunk |
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| In charge of United States AIr Mail flying DH-4's |
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| first overnight cross country flight |
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| in charge of the Aeronautics Branch (aircraft/pilot certification) |
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all aircraft should be metal
Air Sedan; 2-AT; 3-AT (failure, fired)
Ford buys his company |
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| Ford Air Transport Service |
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| first private company to fly under the government act |
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sells aircraft to Vern Gorst and the Pacific Air Transport
mail business
Model 40 flies over the Rockies |
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makes monoplanes for aerial surveying
works with Embry-Riddle Co. |
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| postmaster general who rids of $3.00/# rule |
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| Douglas plane that helps put U.S. at the forefront of commercial aircraft |
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competitor with Easter/Rickenbacker
Brown rejects their lowest bid |
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| puts war department (ARMY) in charge of mail |
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| 3 year contracts go to lowest airline bid (no previous companies) |
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| nephews of Cessna who reopen the company and make the C-34 Globemaster and the T-50 (AT-17 military) |
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made by Wallace and the Cessna Co.
Most efficient aircraft
Flaps
Puts Cessna as one of the leaders of aviation |
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Beech flies this is a contest and wins
Wheeled brakes and Earth inductor and vacuum driven compass |
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| Herb Rawdon and Beech build this and fly it in the National Air Race and beat out the ARMY and NAVY |
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People all over the world fly this twin engine, all metal aircraft
many purposes (military, aerial photo.)
Very succesful |
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in charge of Taylor Brothers Aircraft Co.
Taylor Club Model E-2
Fires Jamouneau and engineering staff
Bought out by Piper |
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Modifies Cub E-2 for Piper into J-3 Cub
Fired by Taylor and hired by Piper |
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| Redesigned (yellow, black stripe) Cub E-2 by Jamouneau that becomes the best selling aircraft in the U.S. (military, Embry Riddle) |
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| starts National Air Races in 1929 |
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wins National Air Races in 1931
Flies Gee Bee Model Z
Crashes/dies when trying to set speed record |
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| Doolittle flies this in the 1932 National Air Race and tops out at 294 mph |
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| wins the National Air Race trophy 3 times (should be 4 - DQ'd) and tops out at 400 mph in "Meteor" during last race |
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| flies across U.S. in 41 days in Wright Bi-Plane |
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woman who flies in a Northrop Gamma in the Bendix Trophy but cannot finish
Wins Bendix Trophy in 1938 flying a Seversky SV-2 |
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| third Naval aviator who establishes flight training at Pensacola and suggest that four flying boats be flown to Europe |
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| advocates that NAVY needs aircraft/carriers; dies on Akron |
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Bluebird VE-7 (first plane to fly off an aircraft carrier)
Vought UO-1 |
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Chance Vought
Observation plane launched via catapult
Lawrence Engine
Standard issue for Marines |
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sets altitude record in bi-plane (33,114')
hypoxia and carbon monoxide poisoning; bleeding eyes |
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flies across U.S. (Jacksonville - San Diego) in 21 hours
Meets Jon Paul Riddle |
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flies non-stop flight across U.S. in 27 hours with Kelly
Hudson Bay High |
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flies non-stop flight across U.S. in 27 hours with Macready
Hudson Bay High |
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| winds shift from East to West |
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| first aerial refueling (jumping from plane to plane with gas tank) |
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| ARMY flies four aircraft with interchangeable landing gear/ pontoons around the world in 172 days |
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| builds the Aereon (3 cigar shaped balloons tied together) with no engine |
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flies to the North Pole in the America
attempts to fly across the Atlantic - rescued by ship (claims endurance/range records) |
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NAVY purchase from British
Largest airship ever built (at time)
On landing - splits in half; blows up; 5/49 survive |
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Dirigible - round trip flight to California
Moffett flies it to compete with ARMY World Cruise
Crashes over Ohio and kills 14/41 |
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Goodyear Dirigible
Three sailors holding tie-downs go up with airship
Crashes in storm on Jersey Coast; Moffett dies |
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tube of powder attached to an arrow
made by chinese |
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| publishes a book on how to make a rocket (propellants, calculations, etc.) |
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makes rockets that are used from land/sea
had a guide stick
Rockets are used in War of 1812
Do not defeat Ft. McHenry |
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attacked by British (during War of 1812) with Congreve rockets but it does not fall
Star Spangled Banner |
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writes books about space travelers (launched via cannon)
From the Earth to the Moon
Round the Moon |
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| Where Goddard successfully tests his 3 tube launched rockets |
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| "A method of reaching extreme altitudes" |
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| Goddard published this article about rockets in space, the need for stage, and escape velocity |
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| fund Goddard's experiments |
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| Goddard's rocket that sets an official record of 6,568' |
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| Use fuel to both power and cool engine |
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1941, ARMY lieutenant takes off via rocket
cuts distance in half, put the plane in air faster, and there was no structural damage to aircraft |
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