Cav 100

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Cav 100

• Gliders

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Sir George Cayley

• 1. In 1799 recorded a glider design for a fixed
  wing aircraft on a silver disc.
• Built gliders large enough to carry a man.
• Used his coachman as a test pilot.
• Cayley was reluctant to share is work.
• 1809-1810 published On aerial navigation
  described how lift was created.

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Otto Lilienthal

• Considered the greatest glider pilot.
• 1891 flew the first controlled glider flights.
• Made over 2500 flights.
• Was supported by the German government.
• Built a 50 foot hill outside Berlin for takeoffs.
• Was killed in 1896 while flying.

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Octave Chanute

• 1894 published Progress in Flying Machines.
• Control done by shifting pilots weight.
• Design was basically a hang glider.
• Influenced the Wright brothers.

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Samuel Langley

• Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute
• Developed scaling technique.

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Wright brothers

• Developed kites with control surfaces.
• Developed wing warping.

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Transition to Powered Flight

• Damlier- developed the first aeronautical engine.
• Company he founded is now called Damlier Chrysler.

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Sir Hiram Maxim

• Invented the Maxim machine gun.
• 1894 built a steam powered 3.5 ton aircraft.
• Got airborne and crashed during testing.
• Not considered first flight because it did not
  land succesfully.

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Samuel Langley

• 1898 got 50,000 from US Govt to build a
  passenger carrying airplane.
• Charles Manly-engine designer.
• Aerodrome-catapult launched.
• Made two attempts in October and December of 1903
  with Manly at the controls.

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Wright Brothers

• Realized that much of the work done before was
  wrong.
• Built their own engine.
• Attempts were made at Kitty Hawk, NC.
• Used wing warping and rudder to control flight of
  aircraft.
• December 17th, 1903 first heavier than air, man
  carrying flight to a safe landing.

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Glenn Curtiss

• Main rival to the Wright brothers.
• Was one of the original barnstormers.
• Was a designer of aircraft.
• Main contribution-development of the aileron for
  roll control.

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Litigation

• Wright brothers patent problems.
• No patent for the airplane.
• Brothers refused to display the original Flyer in
  the USA.
• Today is in the Air and Space Museum.

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Women in Aviation

• Baroness De La Roche
• First woman to solo-1908 in France.
• Blanche Stuart Scott-First American woman to
  solo-1910-accidently took off.
• Harriet Quimby-First American woman to receive a
  pilots rating. 1912 first woman to fly across the
  English Channel.