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Received patent (with Gustave de Struve) for a steam-engine powered “flying machine” capable of carrying 120 people (i.e., commercial passenger aircraft) (1864), [183] and for a navigable balloon (1883). [184] E. Lilian Todd: 1865 26 Sep 1937 United States: Designer Construction Propeller: First female aircraft designer (c. 1906). [185 ...
Tupolev Tu-155, the first aircraft to fly solely on hydrogen. First flight by an aircraft fuelled only with hydrogen: was made by a Tupolev Tu-155 (a modified Tu-154 airliner) powered only by hydrogen on April 15, 1988. [250] A NACA Martin B-57B flew on hydrogen in February 1957, but only for 20 minutes before reverting to jet fuel. [251]
An Air Malta crewman performing a pre-flight inspection of an Airbus A320.. Aviation safety is the study and practice of managing risks in aviation.This includes preventing aviation accidents and incidents through research, educating air travel personnel, passengers and the general public, as well as the design of aircraft and aviation infrastructure.
The first cruise missile , the first ballistic missile , the first (and to date only) operational rocket-powered combat aircraft Me 163—which attained velocities of up to 1,130 km/h (700 mph) in test flights—and the first vertical take-off a manned point-defence interceptor, the Bachem Ba 349 Natter, were also developed by Germany. However ...
Mary Wallace Funk (born February 1, 1939) is an American aviator, commercial astronaut, [1] [2] and Goodwill Ambassador.She was the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, the first female civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the first female Federal Aviation Agency inspector, as well as one of the Mercury 13.
The ASF was established in 1976 under the Airports Security Force Act LXXVII of 1975, initially as the directorate within the Department of Civil Aviation. After the hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines aircraft in March 1981 , sensing the contradictory requirements of security and facilitation, the ASF was separated, and, in December ...
P-51D-20NA, Glamorous Glen III, is the aircraft in which Yeager achieved most of his aerial victories. Yeager demonstrated outstanding flying skills and combat leadership. On October 12, 1944, he became the first pilot in his group to make "ace in a day," downing five enemy aircraft in a single mission
Alberto Santos-Dumont, self-stylised as Alberto Santos=Dumont, [1] (20 July 1873 – 23 July 1932) was a Brazilian aeronaut, sportsman, inventor, [2] [3] and one of the few people to have contributed significantly to the early development of both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air aircraft. The heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers ...