History of Flight

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History of Flight

• Before space travel

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Wright Flyer 1903

• What 1st successful Airplane
• Who Orville and Wilbur Wright
• Where Kitty Hawk North Carolina
• When 12-17-1903
• Solved mechanical flight, lift, Propulsion and
  control.

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Ryan NYP Spirit of Saint Louis

• What 1st nonstop solo transatlantic flight.
• Who Charles A. Lindbergh
• Where Long Island to Paris
• When May 21, 1927
• Lindbergh boom interest heightened for safe
  reliable mode of transportation.

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Amelia Earhart

• 1st women to cross the Atlantic by air in June
  1928
• 1st women to fly solo pilot in 1932
• Aboard the 1st flight that successfully flew from
  California to Hawaii in January of 1935.
• Set off to circumnavigate the world in June 1937,
  but vanished in the Pacific.

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Glamorous Glennis

• What 1st aircraft to travel faster than the
  speed of sound.
• Who Capt. Charles E Yeager
• Where Altitude of 700 miles or 43,000 ft.
• When October 14, 1947