Key People

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Key People Events in the History of Aviation

• Mr. Janosz
• Invention Innovation

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Chinese Develop Kites

• 300 B.C.E.

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Archimedes and Buoyancy Principle

• 200 B.C.E.

4
Leonardo DaVinci

• 1500 C.E.
• Theorizes flight machines

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Leonardo DaVinci

• 1500 C.E.
• Theorizes flight machines

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Giovanni Borelli

• 1680 C.E.
• Human Muscles are too weak to sustain flight

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Blanchard Jeffries

• 7 January 1785
• Cross the English Channel in a hydrogen balloon

8
George Cayley

• 1804
• Sends a gliding aircraft across a valley in
  Britain
• George Cayley is known as the father of the study
  of aerodynamics

9
Samuel P. Langley

• 7 October 8 December 1903
• Full scale model of piloted aerodrome fails

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Orville Wilbur Wright

• 17 December 1903
• Orville pilots Kitty Hawk Flyer on a 120ft, 12
  second flight in North Carolina

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Orville Wilbur Wright

• 17 December 1903
• First piloted heavier than air powered flight

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Glenn Curtiss

• 30 November 1907
• Forms first U.S. airplane company

Curtiss and the Wrights would later merge their
respective companies to form Curtiss-Wright. The
Curtiss-Wright company developed new engines and
had a production plant in Paterson.
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World War I

• 1914-1918
• First large scale military application of powered
  aircraft

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World War I

• 1914-1918

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World War I

• 1914-1918

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U.S. Air Mail

• 1917

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U.S. Air Mail

• 1917

18
Night Flight

• 1921
• U.S. Army sets beacons to allow for flying at
  night

19
Ford Trimotor Tin Goose

• 1927
• First production airplane designed primarily for
  passengers

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Curtiss Wright Merger

• 1929
• Toward the end of the 1930s Curtiss-Wright
  Corporation boasted an Aircraft Division with
  principal production facilities at Buffalo, New
  York and St. Louis, Missouri Wright
  Aeronautical, the Engine Division, at Paterson,
  New Jersey (soon to expand to an enormous
  facility at Wood-Ridge, New Jersey) and the
  Curtiss Propeller Division at Clifton, New
  Jersey. The Propeller Division expanded to larger
  facilities in Caldwell, New Jersey and
  Indianapolis, Indiana when World War II began.
  Early in World War II aircraft plants were also
  opened in Louisville, Kentucky and Columbus and
  Cincinnati, Ohio. During the war Studebaker
  Corporation and Buick Division of General Motors
  participated in the manufacture of Wright
  engines.
• Source http//www.curtisswright.com/history/1941-
  1945.asp
• Now headquartered in Lyndhurst, NJ
• Web link

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Charles Lindbergh

• 20-21 May 1927
• First solo transatlantic flight

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1930s

• Most innovative period
• Several airline companies in existence

23
Hindenberg Crash
1937
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Hindenberg Crash

• 1937

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Boeing Stratoliner

• 1940
• First pressurized cabin allows flight over 20,000
  feet

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World War II

• 1938-1945
• Increased aircraft production dramatically

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World War II

• 1938-1945
• Curtiss P36

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World War II

• 1938-1945
• HE-1 Hospital Plane

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World War II

• 1938-1945
• P51 Mustang

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Frank Whittle

• 1930
• British inventor develops first jet engine

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Hans Von Ohain

• 1939
• German inventor develops application of jet
  engine to aircraft

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First Production Jet Aircraft

• 1942
• Messerschmitt Me262

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Chuck Yeager

• First to break sound barrier

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Chuck Yeager

• Bell XS-1
• 14 October 1947