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Man
wins $50,000 in poker game...and buys airline?
 Legends
abound about the founding fathers of the airline industry.
Edward Daly was born to the family of an Irish Chicago
fireman on Nov. 20, 1922. One often repeated legend about
World Airways founder Ed Daly is that after a particularly
good run of luck at a poker table, he took his $50,000
in winnings and bought World Airways...Read
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History
of Aviation
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From
the earliest times man has turned his thoughts and creative
intellect to the development of a mechanism...More
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Experimental
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There
was another school which believed in the future of machines...More
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Hot
Air
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Two
papermakers by trade, Joseph Michel Montgolfier and his
brother Etienne conceived the idea of filling a globe...More
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Hydrogen
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In
1766, Henry Cavendish discovered that 'the inflammable
air', now known as Hydrogen, was lighter than air...More
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Winged
Flight
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The
modern airplane was evolved from the ideas of an Englishman...More
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The
Wright Brothers
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The
acclaim for the evolution of a heavier-than-air, man-carrying
airplane...More >> |
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The first powered flight, in the history of the world,
was made by first ever pilot Orville Wright at 10:30am
on the morning of the 17th December, 1903 at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina when he flew the machine 120ft. |
 History
of Aviation
From
the earliest times man has turned his thoughts and creative
intellect to the development of a mechanism or machine by
means of which he could fly. Daedalus, the mythical Greek
architect and sculptor is said to have lived three generations
before the Trojan Wars and to have invented 'wings of flight',
which his son Icarus foolishly attempted to use and met his
death by drowning in the Icarian Sea.
Many
of these early drawings were based upon the study of bird
flight and all appear to include the flapping of wings attached
to the arms of the body. All these were known as 'flapping
wings' machines. Many drawings by Leonardo da Vinci still
survive.
Experimental
There was another school which believed in the
future of machines which would themselves be lighter-than
air. one of these pundits was the thirteenth century monk,
Roger Bacon.
The thinking of the day involved a thin walled , brass globe
from which the air had been sucked out to create a vacuum.
It was believed that the vacuum together with the thin walled
brass globe would be lighter than air and therefore light
enough to fly.
Little did they know that the globe would collapse inwards
under the atmospheric pressure without any opposing internal
pressure to withstand it.
Hot
Air
 Two
papermakers by trade, Joseph Michel Montgolfier and his brother
Etienne, born in Annonay, France, conceived the idea of filling
a globe, made of paper, with hot air to see if it would fly.
They made a globe of canvas and paper and lit a fire under
the opening at the bottom.
On
June 5th, 1783, the balloon rose into the air and remained
aloft for ten minutes, travelling one and a half miles before
landing.On September 18th, 1783, this was followed by sending
up a balloon, with basket attached, containing a sheep, a
cock and a duck.
The
first humans to make an ascent in a balloon were Pilatre de
Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlande on the 21st November, 1783,
this flight lasted twenty five minutes and they flew over
Paris. The air in the balloon was kept hot by a fire suspended
beneath the opening in the bottom.
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