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Raymond Loewy (/ ˈ l oʊ i / LOH-ee, French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ levi]; [2] November 5, 1893 – July 14, 1986) was a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries.
American pioneering aviator and test pilot who made the first high-altitude flights by man using Montgomery gliders in 1905. [130] (†) Glider, Santa Clara, California. Hiram Stevens Maxim: 5 Feb 1840 24 Nov 1916 United States (United Kingdom) Science Design Construction Rotor Propeller
Glenn Curtiss was born in 1878 in Hammondsport, New York, situated on the southern tip of Keuka Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in New York. His mother was Lua Curtiss née Andrews and his father was Frank Richmond Curtiss a harness maker who had arrived in Hammondsport with Glenn's grandparents in 1876.
During World War II Collins Radio became a key supplier of ground, ship, and aircraft communication equipment, expanding from about 350 to a peak of about 3700 employees. Arthur Collins was a co-designer of the Autotune device. [10] Invented for commercial aviation shortly before the war, it allowed the pilot to remotely switch to preset ...
Link trainer in use at a British Fleet Air Arm station in 1943. The term Link Trainer, also known as the "Blue box" and "Pilot Trainer" [1] is commonly used to refer to a series of flight simulators produced between the early 1930s and early 1950s by Link Aviation Devices, founded and headed by Ed Link, based on technology he pioneered in 1929 at his family's business in Binghamton, New York.
The pilot’s comforting words came just before the flight took off at 7:22 p.m. Thursday, according to public flight records — and less than 23 hours after an American Airlines passenger plane ...
In 1898, Bell experimented with man-lifting tetrahedral kites and wings constructed of multiple compound tetrahedral kites covered in maroon silk. [N 1] The tetrahedral wings were named Cygnet I, II and III, and were flown both uncrewed and crewed (Cygnet I crashed during a flight carrying Selfridge) in the period from 1907 to 1912.
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