A pictorial history of the airplane and the men and women associated with flight - pilots, astronauts, inventors, and others. Read more >>
Since the beginning of time, humans have wanted to fly. While this goal was sought in many ways (fashioning wings and wearing them, hot air balloons, gliders), it wasn't until the beginning of the 20th century that the modern concept of the airplane was successfully achieved.
Flying facts:
Following is a pictorial history of flight and of the men and women associated with this history. << Read less
Flying facts:
- KLM - Royal Dutch Airlines - is the oldest airline operating under its original name and still flying in the world. It was formed in 1919.
- The Boeing 747's 195 ft wing-span is longer than the Wright Brothers' first flight - the Kitty Hawk flew 120 feet.
- In the Fall of 1783 three passengers as well as a sheep, a rooster and a duck successfully flew in a hot air balloon.
- English is used internationally in flight - all flight controllers and pilots must speak English if they are involved with flight between countries.
- Harriet Quimby was the first woman licensed to pilot a plane in the U.S. - in 1911. She was also the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
- Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. Charles Lindbergh was the first man to fly solo, without stops, across the Atlantic in 1927.
- Chuck Yeager was the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound in 1947.
- Take heart: approximately 95.7% of people involved in a plane crash survive the crash.
Following is a pictorial history of flight and of the men and women associated with this history. << Read less
That's a photo of my father Pvt. Leonard J. Chapman, holding the rear of the aircraft, so it will not begin to take off. This photo taken about 1929, in the Philippine Island.
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A photo of Arthur Richard Hugh Beauman's plane
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A photo of S/L Norman Henry Nixon arriving at Cairns Airport with the 1956 Olympic flame he flew from Darwin.
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A photo of Robert E Montague (1921 - 1998) and crew
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A photo of William George Mccaig
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A photo of Willard Dewayne Dover
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Douglas,beside an ancient bi-plane (I think). Douglas volunteered in the Canadian Air Force at the beginning of WWII. According to family history, he was lost in a mission over Germany.
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Orville Wright and Lieutenant Lahm of the United States Signal Corps making the world's record flight at Fort Myer, on July 27--The aeroplane made fifty miles at a speed of about forty miles an hour
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Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright seated on steps of rear porch, 7 Hawthorne St., Dayton, Ohio
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A photo of Arthur Douglas Hardinge
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A photo of Arthur Douglas Hardinge
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A photo of William Lendrum Mitchell
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Dangerous missions. John Walter Mchugo piloting a P-51 Mustang during WW2.
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A photo of Harold Nigel Egerton Salmon
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A photo of Ed B Newkirk, Jr (right ) - 1932 photo William “Billy” Ford & Ed Newkirk standing in front of Ford’s Curtiss JN-4 Jenny at North Wilkesboro Airport
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A photo of "Jook" Girl - B-29 nose art
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Had a flight in this aircraft, after researching an accident that killed one of my late father's friends in 1944 (Maurice Wyburn Webber and his instructor Flt Sgt Raymond Victor Askey, in the same type of aircraft.
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A photo of Barth Edward Clevenger
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A photo of an old Ford Tri-motor Mitchel Air Base June 1941 A James A Fazzi Sr Picture
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Lockheed Airplane At Roosevelt Field Mitchel Air Base June 1941 A James A Fazzi Sr Picture
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A photo of D.W. Sparks & His Piper Cub Airplane Jun 1941 Long Island N.Y. A James A Fazzi Sr Picture
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A photo of a B-24 Hit By A Jap Daisey Cutter Incendiary Bomb During The 23 Bomber 24 Zeros Raid In Broad Daylight At 1245 PM Approximately 3 Million Dollars of Damage Done
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An Australian Beaufort Bomber - Milne Bay, Nov 1942
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A photo of an Armorer Working On A P-38 Just Like An Automobile
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A photo of Msgt. James A Fazzi Sr In The Cockpit Of P-40 35th Pursuit Squadron Langley Air Field VA 11-03-40........James A Fazzi Picture
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A photo of a Tow Target Operation, Langley Field VA
Ready To Go Up In A B-10 A James A Fazzi Sr Picture
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Trumbull Field Later Known As Groton Army Field
Changing Wings On A P-40 That Was Cracked Up While Landing
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A photo of Ted Chapman's flight group and training class mid 1943
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A photo of Anna Marie (Braunger) Kriege
Honeymoon in California in a Bi-Plane 1920
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My father, Gary Campagna, in New Orleans during Navy Training around 1952.
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A photo of William James Finnegan
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A photo of Ernest C Cuffle (1939 - 1997)
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A photo of Betty Sue (Lassiter) Sharp - Fly Girl Betty
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A photo of Betty Sue (Lassiter) Sharp - Betty Sue the Pilot
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A photo of Peter Henry Baigent
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Under the wing of the Dakota on Meiktila Airstrip 1946
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A photo of Alfred J. Puchis. "Kansas City airport after 12 hours flying from NY. June 2, 1931. The baggy pants are provided by the revolving aero pellets"
THIS WAS HANDWRITTEN ON BACK OF PHOTO.
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