Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Engineer, thermodynamicist, pioneer developer of practical all-metal airframe structures, first used in the 1915-16 Junkers J 1, using all-cantilever structural concepts meant to place all strength-bearing components within an airframe's outer envelope and established all-metal aircraft manufacturing techniques later used by American designer ...
Founder of Pan American World Airways, cited for "public service of enduring value to aviation in the United States" [21] [28] 1967 Igor Sikorsky: Aircraft pioneer whose work resulted in the design and production of the first mass-produced helicopter, the R-4 [21] [29] 1968 Warren Magnuson
During the flight, one of the aircraft's engines developed an oil leak. Bennett advised turning back but Byrd decided to continue the flight. [ 3 ] Although members of the European press were skeptical of their claim (because it seemed that the plane had been away from Spitzbergen too briefly to have reached the North Pole), Byrd and Bennett ...
Pioneers such as Octave Chanute and the British Army officer Lt. Col. John Capper were among those who believed the Wrights' public and private statements about their flights. [ 5 ] In 1906, almost three years after the first flights, the U.S. Army rejected an approach from the Wrights on the basis that their proposed machine's ability to fly ...
Samuel Franklin Cowdery (later known as Samuel Franklin Cody; 6 March 1867 – 7 August 1913, born Davenport, Iowa, USA [1]) was a Wild West showman and early pioneer of manned flight. He is most famous for his work on the large kites known as Cody War-Kites , that were used by the British before World War I as a smaller alternative to balloons ...
Vue du Pont de Sèvres, painted in 1908 by Henri Rousseau. The pioneer era of aviation was the period of aviation history between the first successful powered flight, generally accepted to have been made by the Wright Brothers on 17 December 1903, and the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.
William Edward Boeing (/ ˈ b oʊ ɪ ŋ /; October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956) was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later. The company is now the largest exporter in the United States by dollar value and among the largest aerospace manufacturers in the world.
Cunningham was an avid supporter in the new conceptual Advanced Base Force and thought he saw a role for aircraft, requesting assignment to the Navy's flying school at Annapolis. [4] Cunningham served in the Marine guards of New Jersey (BB-16) and North Dakota (BB-29) , and the receiving ship USS Lancaster , over the next two years.