History of Aviation

The Wright brothers were TWO of the most important people in aviation.

The Wright Bros.

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Aviation pioneer Sir Frank Whittle was the son of Moses Whittle and his wife Sara Alice Garlick.

The P-40 designation covered a number of variants called Kittyhawk, Warhawk and Tomahawk, from model A through N. There were almost 10,000 built in total. It's hard to find exact numbers of each model, but the most numerous were the N models sold to the RAF, RAAF, RNZAF and Russia, there were 3,200 of these .

I would believe Wiley Post does, but Roscoe Turner may also be in the running, and I have also heard of a USAF pilot who flew Airforce One in the 1970's who apparently had many records.

It was 34 years after the first continental railroad, that the Wright brothers flew their historic flight.

Sometime in the late 1890's

He achieved his record by shooting down Allied aircraft.

Australian aviator Charles Kingsford-Smith inspired her.

The De havilland 88 Comet was a unique High speed aircraft constructed for the MacRobertson Air Race from England to Australia. It had many new features such as retractable undercarriage and variable pitch propellors and was very streamlined. One of them made a record flight of 71 hours to win the MacRobertson trophy in 1934. - Almost 20 years later, De Havilland's first jet airliner was also named Comet.

The world's first airplane wasn't built in Spain. Spain's first flight took place 5th September 1909 in Valencia. The first flight in the world took place 1903 and is credited to the Wright brothers in North Carolina USA.

Gaspar Brunet and Juan Olivert designed and built the Spanish airplane.

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The first aircraft autopilot was developed by Sperry Corporation in 1912.

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Bleriot married Alice Védères, the daughter of a retired army officer.

Because it followed the curvature of the earth.

A numbered hourly overhaul of aircraft or engines. Ie 40 hr overhaul, 100 hour overhaul.

Lindbergh influenced Amelia simply by being the first person to fly the Atlantic solo. She wanted to copy this to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo, and she achieved this exactly 5 years later

Transport could be any medium that carries passengers or cargo. It could be horses, buses, trains, trucks, ships or aircraft. Aviation is the science of flight, and operations of aircraft.

Given her love for aviation, her favorite color most likely was the bright blue sky.

An aircraft battery is usually 28 volts DC because the need for power is greater in an aircraft than in a diesel truck. Having the 4 extra volts is a type of insurance policy so that the battery does not go dead while the plane is in the air.

No, but he was a pioneer airman and designer and eventually merged with his arch-rival Wright, hence Curtiss-Wright. Curtiss independenly invented ailerons which were originally called ( Interplane Field Struts) in l908-09. These were far superior to the wing-warping device of the Wright Bros. the ealry ailerons extended beyond the wing plane of the craft-used on biplanes, gave the craft the appearance of a triplane when viewed Bow-On. hence Interplane field struts- in the air-field between the upper and lower wings. a Biplane of this type only had two ailerons, economizing on control surfaces!

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