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Aviation Educational Posters- the Science, Art & History of Flight, pg 1/2
for the classroom and home schoolers.
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educational posters > social studies > aviation & flight posters 1 | 2 < science
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Pioneers in aviation include the Montgolfier and Wright Brothers, hot air balloonists, gliders, parachutes, military and commericial aviation, space flight and the Greek myth of Icarus.
The word 'aviation' is French, from the Latin avis "bird".
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The first public demonstration of a hot air balloon was made on 4th June 1783, in France by the Montgolfier Bros. Benjamin Franklin witnessed one of the Montgolfier's flights.
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BOOKS ON AVIATION & HUMAN FLIGHT |
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In December 1783 Sebastien Lenomard jumped from a Montpelier observatory tower in Paris with a 14’ round piece of linen cloth shaped like an umbrella. He named the device a 'parachute', Fr. parare=to shield, chute=fall. (oh- I just got 'parasol' - shield from sun.) Leonardo da Vinci made notations of a device that would break a fall c. 1495; and in 1617 Venetian Fauste Veranzio constructed an application based on da Vinci's drawing and jumped from a tower in Venice. The Chinese also worked on the concept of letting a person fall safely from some height c. 1200, and in 852 AD a gentleman named Armen Firman sustained only minor injuries when he lept from a tower in Cordoba using his cloak stiffened with wooden struts.
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Jean-Pierre Blanchard
b. 7-7-1753; France
d. 3-7-1809; from injuries suffered in a fall from a balloon caused by a heart attack.
French ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard made the first crossing of the English Channel in a balloon with Boston physician John Jefferies on 1-7-1785. He also made the first balloon flight in North America in 1793. President George Washington saw the flight, as did future US Presidents Jefferson, Madison and Monroe. His widow, Sophie Blanchard, was also a balloonist.
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Sir George Cayley
b. 12-27-1773
d. 12-15-1857
Sir George Cayley, described as the "father of Aerodynamics", is best known for his "flying machines" which included gliders and small scale helicopters.
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William Samuel Henson
b. 1812; England
d. 1888; New Jersey
W.S. "Mad-man" Henson, patented a "Henson Aerial Steam Carriage" in 1843, and formed the Aerial Transit Company to raise money to construct the machine. His scale models were never able to fly; the image of the flying machine were created to advertise the new possibility of air flight.
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Jean-Marie Le Bris
b. 1817; Brittany
d. 1872
Sea captain Jean-Marie Le Bris accomplished a glider flight in 1856 with a design based on his observations of the highly efficient albatross soaring over cover great distances with little exertion.
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Henry Giffard
b. 1825
d. 1882
French engineer Henry Giffard invented a steam powered airship (dirigible) that made the first powered and controlled flight on 9-12-1852.
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Octave Chanute
b. 2-18-1832; Paris, France
d. 11-23-1910; Chicago
Octave Chanute, both an engineer and pioneer in aviation, was consulted by the Wright brothers early in their aviation endeavors because of his willingness to share his thoughts and latest development. Chanute's openess caused a rift with the Wrights when they wanted to protect their work with secrecy.
Chanute designed and built the stockyards in Chicago and Kansas City, and Kansas City's Hannibal Bridge, the first bridge across the Missouri River (1869) which made KC a transportation hub. We can also thank Chanute for developing the use of creosote derived from coal tar in railroad ties and telephone poles for the purpose of preservation from decay, with the unintented consequences of health problems. |
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Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
b. 7-8-1838; Germany
d. 3-8-1917
Von Zeppelin invented a buoyant airship that used a cavity filled with a gas less dense than air and manuvered with rudders and propellers. After some spectucalr accidents airships are no longer viable in commercial transportation, though most people are familiar with blimps (soft sided airships) used in advertising where the ability to hover for long periods is desirable.
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Wright Brothers
Technologies Past Text: “We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests.” Orville Wright
The Wright's Flyer had a "tail first' arrangement. Wing-warping allowed the plane to turn, but the brothers found that a bank could cause the plane to spiral into the ground. Thy added moveable rudders to keep th turn under control.
Orville and Wilbur Wright, American inventors and aviation pioneers, achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight of an airplane in 1903. The brothers built two sturdier, more reliable planes in the next two years, and in 1906 received a U.S. patent for a powered aircraft.
17 December 1903 at Kitty Hawk: Flyer No. 1 rises into the air for the first time. Three flights were made that day. The longest, piloted by Wilbur, was 852 feet and took 59 seconds. ...
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Ten Days that Shook the Nation -
First Flight of the Wright Brothers December 17, 1903
Ever since Icarus donned his wings of feathers and wax, humans have dreamed of flying. But as the 20th century began, few believed people would ever fly through the air. But two young men from Dayton, Ohio, knew better. Their names were Wilbur and Orville Wright. The Wright brothers first became interested in powered flight after reading about the pioneering glider pilot Otto Lilienthal. Soon, they began experimenting with gliders and kites of their own design. On the advice of weather experts, they chose a narrow strip of sandy beach near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina for their experiments. . ...
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First Flight
Poster Text: Wilbur and Orville Wright chose the windy, sandy beaches of the Outer Banks, islands off the coast of North Carolina, to test their gliders and their first airplane. The two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, made Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, famous when their airplane took off and flew under its own power – the first time a motorized airplane actually flew. This picture records the first flight of the Wright Brothers' plane on December 17, 1903. Orville was at the controls. Wilbur ran alongside holding on to a wind to keep the plane balanced, and he let go as the plane rose in the air. Wilbur had set up the camera, and the picture was taken by John Daniels, a local man who came by to help the brothers. On this first flight the plane stayed in the air for twelve seconds and flew 120 feet. The Wright brothers made four flights that day; the longest light lasted 59 seconds.
The Wright airplane was the first great invention that ws fully documented by photography. Wilbur and Orville had taken up the photography as a hobby before they became interested in aviation. During the four years they worked to build their airplane, the found photography to be a valuable tool. They used photos to record their experiements and to analyze their mistakes. And, in the end, a picture proved they had made the first machine to fly under its own power.
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Glenn Hammond Curtiss
b. 5-21-1878; Hammondsport, NY
d. 7-23-1930; Buffalo
Glenn H. Curtiss, aviation pioneer, was the winner in the world's first air meet (August 1909, France) and on May 29, 1910 he won the $10,000 first prize offered by Joseph Pulitizer for his 153 minute flight from Albany to New York City (137 miles). His victory lap was flying over Manhattan and circling the Statue of Liberty.
Curtis had the first U.S. pilot license (1911) and was the founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. The Curtiss "Jenny" is associated with the training of pilots for World War I.
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