History of Aviation

The maximum range for the British Airways Concorde is 4,488.04 miles (or 3,900 nmi / 7,222.8 km)

The SR-71 wasn't introduced until 1964. The premier recon plane used by the US during WWII was the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

For discovery and adventure, followed by commercial flights and air mail, and then military purposes as of World War I, and finally espionnage in the 1950's and drones as of the 1990's

Teddy Roosevelt

The Zeppellin was a rigid framed airship with helium in huge bags. .

CR-42 Italian biplane fighter from WWII

Because she was the first women to fly the Atlantic. Not because she flew the world because she actually died trying.

Nobody has found definite parts of the plane .

Depends on the variant. Some are air-refuel capable and therefore only limited by the duty day limitations of the crew. Ballpark answer for all variants; 8-24 hours.

To hold both wings in line with each other and to tension the entire aircraft.

-5,000 feet, they didnt do so good.

Much less than 5000 ft. The first successful flight was 120 feet.

A plane with two wings on each side of the fuselage

Each one was a pioneer in aviation

- The Wright brothers were first to fly

- Manfred von Richthofen was the first ace in WWI

- Emilia Earhart was the first woman to fly

- Charles Lindbergh was the first man to fly over the Atlantic Ocean successfully

- Charles "Chuck" Yeager was the first man to break the sound barrier

To that list you can also add:

- Louis Blériot, the first man to successfully cross the English Channel

- Laika, the first living being in space

- Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space

- Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space

- Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon

- Bertrand Piccard & Brain Jones, the first men to travel around the globe successfully in a hot-air balloon

- Joseph William Kittinger II, the first man to jump with a parachute from the stratosphere (a record broken by the Austrian Felix Baumgartner in Oct. 2012)

Avgas 90 was the fuel for a Liberator.

The Hindenburg carried more passengers than the Graf Zeppelin.

Over 7,400 have been built so far.

The first generally recognized and substantiated human flight took place in Paris in 1783. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes went 8 km (5 miles) in a hot air balloon invented by the Montgolfier brothers. The balloon was powered by a wood fire.

Most military aircraft, heliocopters and fixed-wing aircraft, are equipped and the pilots trained to allow them to be refueled in-flight. Civilian aircraft are not designed to be refueled in-flight. == In-flight refueling was a concept that dates back to the earlies days of aviation. The weight of the aircraft was so critical, this sometimes limited the fuel and therefore the range of the aircraft. On November 21, 1921, a unique method was tried. Frank Hawks flew his Lincoln Standard biplane over Long Beach, California. Wesley May, a barnstorming wing walker, crawled up onto its top wing. With a five-gallon can of gasoline strapped to his back, May started walking toward the edge of the right wing. Meanwhile, Earl Daugherty, perhaps America’s greatest stunt pilot, eased his Curtiss Jenny just above the Lincoln. When Daugherty got his lower left wing within range, May reached up and grabbed a loop on its lower edge. Then Daugherty eased away, with May and his gas can hanging below. May climbed up onto the lower wing and eventually poured the gasoline into Daugherty’s tank. November 18, 1923, some aviators attempted refueling over Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas, as part of a carnival exhibition. The hose from the tanker caught in the propeller of the receiver, and the tanker crashed. And in July 1935 a pair of brothers, Fred and Algene Key, of Mississippi, set a record that still stands by keeping "Ole Miss", a Curtiss Robin J-1, in the air for 653 hours and 34 minutes, more than 27 days. During the 1970's, the Shah of Iran was head of one of the most weathiest oil-producing countries. He contracted with several US companies and especially aviation companies for business. When the US Air Force was designing a Boeing 747-200 for the E-4 Airborne Command Post (military predecessor of the current Air Force One), he asked if Boeing could incorporate the refueling receptable of the E-4 into his civilian Boeing 747s. A gallon of aviation fuel weighs about six and a half pounds, which is enough to fly 1909 Wright Signal Corps airplane for 16 minutes OR a World War II B-24 for 18 seconds, OR a modern F-15 fighter for about 6 seconds.

The 'Red Baron' - Baron Manfred von Richtofen was born in Silesia (now part of Poland) son of a classic 'junker' family. His father was an Uhlan cavalry officer. Manfred was entered into Military college at age 11and joined the german Cavalry at age 19. He first flew early in WW1 as an observer/gunner, but soon became bored and took pilot training in 1915. He became a pilot but was soon transferred back to the East. He flew there until 'discovered' by the great German ace Oswald Boelcke and transferred back to the Somme where he gained almost all his flying victories.

The first airplanes were almost all made of spruce wood and muslin covering. The spruce was light and strong.

Madame Therese Peltier was the first white woman to fly a plane

Frame was wood so brown, with white canvas cloth covering the frames ofr the wings.

The New South Wales government offered a reward for whoever found the first payable gold because too many people were leaving Australia for the Californian goldfields. The colony faced a huge loss of labour, and the government wanted to stem the tide of people leaving the country. Edward Hargraves was lucky enough to be the one who found the first payable gold so the government had to follow through with its promise.

A night where they could see the target plainly.