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June 4, 1783 First Balloon Used hot air |
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Hydrogen Balloon August 27, 1783 Envelope made of taffeta and India rubber Rose 1500 feet and disappeared into clouds |
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September 19, 1783 Sheep, duck, and rooster 1500 feet |
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September 19, 1783 Sheep, duck, and rooster 1500 feet |
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October 1783 Ettienne Montgolfier Tethered Flight |
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November 21, 1783 First manned flight in free balloon Went aloft in Montgolfier hot air balloon |
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JAC Charles and MN Roberts December 1, 1783 Flew from Paris to Nestle (17 miles) |
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1793-Napoleon for Republic Army Observed enemy position Used against Austrians and Italians |
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1784 - first manned flight it... |
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Ireland, scotland, england, US |
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Ballooning in the Americas |
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Jean-Pierre Blanchard *** January 9, 1793 First manned free flight Philadelphia to New Jersey |
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S.A. Andre North Pole flight Failed Lost on White Island |
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an aircraft that can be directed or steered |
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Henri Giffard September 24, 1852 3hp steam engine Weighed 350lbs Flew 17 miles away from Paris |
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First Roundtrip Flight in Dirigible |
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August 9, 1884 Renard and Krebs 5 miles total distance Chalais-Meudan to Villacoublay and back |
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1901 100,000 Francs First to fly form St. Cloud to Eiffel Tower and back in less than half an hour Santos Dumont won |
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Developed large rigid airship 1900 1900-1917 Retired German Army officer |
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Premier airship Recognized military need for aircraft: long range flights, bad weather flying, and could carry arms, crew, and bombs |
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Delag 1910 - Zeppelin Airships Without schedule services or fixed routes; Competed agains German Express Train; Average speed: 40 mph |
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1804 Recognized aeronautical significance of the kite: wing, fuselage, empennage, rudder, elevator, CG; Built full size gliders and felew a small boy towed by a rope |
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Built and flew gliders in 1891-1896; Controlled the glider by swinging his body; Logged nearly 2000 hours; Demonstrated man could fly in heavier than air craft; Crashed and died in 1896 |
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1894-wrote history of progress in "Flying Machines"; Build man carrying gliders in 1896; Combined Cayley's and Lilienthals's ideas; Visited Wright Brothers at Kill Devil Hill |
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1902 (?) -had almost 1000 flights at Kitty Hawk; 1903-built first aircraft, called it the "flyer" December 14 - Wilbur crashed December 17 - Orville flew 120 feet, 20 seconds; 1903-applied for patent (received in 1906); 1904-built new airplane-Flyer No. 2; 1905-built Flyer No. 3; 1908-received contract for US Army Signal Corps for heavier than air machines; May 1908- Charlie Furnas becamse first passenger in airplane history |
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Sold in France and England; Also trained pilots, civil and military |
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(dirigible around Eifel Tower) November 12, 1906 Made the first officially recognized airplane flight in Europe; Thought he was the first to fly ever |
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France-Voisin Freres Company |
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built 20 airplanes before WWI (1914) |
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1908 1909-obtained license to build Wright Airplanes; Built 6 Wright airplanes 1913-built their own seaplane with folding wings to park on ships |
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1909-Latham tried but crashed; But received first weather info via telegraph; Later in 1909-flew Bleriot across English Channel-success |
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1908-1910-tried to build 2 helicopters but failed and turned to building airplanes; 1911-qualified for pilot's license 1912-won military flying competition 1913-introduced the four engine "Grand "-cockpit, cloth seats, 4 engines; |
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1907 organized teh Aerial Experiment Association to build a practical airplane; Glenn Curtiss was a member |
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2nd only to Wright Brothers; Designed aicraft: that could takeoff and land on ships, flying boats, and hydroplanes; Navy purchased 14 pusher seaplanes from him (1911-1914); Fastest man alive-1907, set speed record at 137 mph; Father of Naval Aviation |
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Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company |
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largest aircraft manufacturer in WWI; Produced 10,000 aircraft in WWI; World's largest aviation company; 100 aircraft produced per week |
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Formed at turn of century; Recognized international licensing; Issued pilot certificates; Promoted Safety Licenses went to well known aviators |
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21 years old;3 solo flights under supervision; demonstrate safe flying skills |
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1st woman pilot Certificate No. 37 1911 |
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1909 1st international airshow at Rheims, France; 23 aircraft entered; competed for speed, distance, and duration of flight; records were set and reset |
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$50,000; must be flown in 30 days; 1911; Cal Rodgers flew Wright Model B; Took 49 days; Crashes and repairs; No prize; First to fly transcontinental |
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10,000 pounds to cross the Atlantic Ocean |
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Airplane Engine Productions |
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Seguins - cousins of Montgolfier Brothers; 1907; 7 cylinder rotary engine; 165lbs; 50hp |
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Manufacturers taught customers how to fly; Opened flight schools-Bleriot airplane and school; 1914-Britain had 13 civilian flight schools; |
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Were just fields; Huffman Prairie OH-used by Wright Brothers; Fort Myer, VA-used its fairgrounds; College Park,MD-1909-Army leased field, built hangars, barracks, telephones, and lights for night flight |
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Aerial Roads-lines of visual aids; 1911-France and Germany published maps; 1911-1st aeronautical weather services; 1911-international laws-specified aeronautical traffic was free, yet subject to regulations by whatever nation is under the airspace |
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1911-India 1911-US named Earle L. Ovington became first airmail pilot; 1913-Katherine Stinson-1st female airmail pilot |
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1914 St Petersburg to Tampa Airboat Line; Flew over Tampa Bay; 1 passenger |
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More nations added small low-budget military forces; 1907-US established an Aeronautical Division with the Signal Corps; 1911-France led world in aviation-1350 airplanes, 1400 engines, 8000 propellers |
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World War I - German Airships |
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Zeppelins - used as reconassiance and as bombers; very vulnerable |
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Airships replaced by airplanes in 1917 but continued using airships on coast; German Navy lost 53 of 73 airships (389 men); German Army lost 26 of 52 airships (52 men); |
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Navy used more than Army - bombing and reconaissance; lost 37 dirigibles and airships |
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WWI-British dirigibles and airships |
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sea scout-blimp-patrolled coast, spot mines, subs, and enemy vessels; Largest fleet of lighter than air aircraft; 103 at end of the war |
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Germany: 15 flight schools France: leading country among Allies Russia: only 50 combat ready aircraft, and less than 100 pilots |
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US-15 GB-80 Austria-Hungary:110 France:160 Russia:190 Germany:230 |
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First Black American Military Aviator |
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flew for Canada, GB, and France (lafayette escadrille) |
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WWI-Military Aviation Develpments |
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1914/1915-used for reconaissance; Pilots started carrying pistols and shooting at each other; aerial combat started in 1914 with pivoting maching guns mounted to the airplanes; Bombing: started by throwing out of airplane; Communication: dropping message bags, signaling by laps, radios; Forward Fighting |
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added metal plates to his prop and mounted a machine gun |
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Red Baron - shot down 80 planes |
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AC Read and crew; Airplane-NC4 May 1919 Jumped from ship to ship; New York to Plymouth England; |
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Nonstop Transatlantic Flight in 72 hours |
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Daily Newspaper offered prize; Alcock and Brown 1919 Newfoundland to Ireland |
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Britain; 1919; Airship R34; 108 hours; Brain to Long Island, NY |
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1919; Smith Brothers; Flew from London to Darwin, Australia; 235:55:00; Vickers Vimy-bomber |
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wanted to research extreme altitudes; Liquid-fueled rocket; 1926-successfully launched a rocket |
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Curtiss Jenny was plane of choice; Relatively cheap to buy |
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Flew crew: 8 men; 4 airplanes: Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, and Seattle - Dougls World Cruisers; Completed in 1924; four men and 2 aircraft completed the trip; Took 5 months |
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Proponent and critic of military aviation after WWI; 1920-organized aerial mapping of Alaska; 1921-advocated airship development; 1925-wrote 17 page statement for Shenandoah crash-blamed military aviation |
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1926-3 teams raced toward North Pole (2 made it); |
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1926-flew over north pole 1929-flew over south pole 1st to fly over both |
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pateras de pescara; changes the pitch of individual blades of a helicopter during rotation |
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started 1918 New York City to Washington; |
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1921 experimental transcontinental airmail service; 33 hours and 20 minutes(record) |
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