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Propeller. Patented a design for a steam-powered “flying machine” (1889, and refined in 1891); [131] successful track-tethered test of a steam-engine powered biplane (Jul 1894); [132] designed and constructed a biplane that never flew (1910) [133] John Alexander Douglas McCurdy. 2 Aug 1886. 25 Jun 1961.
Signature. Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". [2] He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders, [3] therefore making the idea of heavier-than-air aircraft a reality. Newspapers and magazines published ...
Known for. First African-American and Native American female aviator. Spouse. Claude Glenn. . . (m. 1917, separated soon after [1]) . Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) [2] was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license, [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] and ...
Christopher Reeve, American actor, director, producer and writer. Earl W. Renfroe, history maker in the field of orthodontics and in breaking down the barriers of racism. Rob Riggle, American actor and comedian. James A. Rice, American attorney, judge, and politician. Cliff Robertson, former American actor.
Lilian Bland (1878–1971), built her own aircraft; first woman to fly in Ireland [9] Line Bonde (born c.1979), first Danish woman to become a fighter pilot, in 2006. Maude Bonney (1897–1994), Australian aviator who was the first female to fly from England to Australia in 1933 and to South Africa in 1937. Ana Branger (born early 1920s), early ...
Segrave Trophy (1932) Amy Johnson CBE (born 1 July 1903 – disappeared 5 January 1941) was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, she set many long-distance records during the 1930s. In 1933, Katharine Hepburn 's character in the film Christopher ...
Roland Garros (aviator) Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros (French pronunciation: [ʁɔlɑ̃ ɡaʁos]; 6 October 1888 – 5 October 1918) was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot. [3] Garros began a career in aviation in 1909 and performed many early feats such as the first-ever airplane crossing of the Mediterranean Sea in 1913.
The pioneer era of aviation was the period of aviation history between the first successful powered flight, generally accepted to have been made by the Wright Brothers on 17 December 1903, and the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914. Once the principles of powered controlled flight had been established there was a period in which ...