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Overview. Key individuals involved in early aircraft development The names and anatomy of period aircraft The significance of other American pioneers in aviation following the Wright brothers. Calbraith Perry Rodgers. Louis Blériot. Alberto Santos-Dumont.

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  1. Overview • Key individuals involved in early aircraft development • The names and anatomy of period aircraft • The significance of other American pioneers in aviation following the Wright brothers

  2. Calbraith Perry Rodgers LouisBlériot Alberto Santos-Dumont Key Individuals Involved in Early Aircraft Development • In the first decade of the 1900s the Wright brothers were making aviation history • But other people were also becoming aviation pioneers

  3. The Aerial Experiment Association (1907) • Alexander Graham Bell—best known as inventor of the telephone—formed this group • The group made some important design breakthroughs • First, they built the first American plane equipped with ailerons Glenn Curtis

  4. First Seaplane • Members of the association also built and flew the country’s first seaplane • Curtiss would later win the first government contract with the US Navy for seaplanes

  5. Curtiss’s Fame Grows • He won awards for distance and speed (the Scientific American trophy and an award at the Rheims Air Meet in France) • Curtiss opened a flight school in 1910, the same year the Wright brothers opened their school • Curtiss’s effect on aviation can still be felt today

  6. Louis Blériot • French pilot Louis Blériot was the first man to cross the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft in 1909 • Although Blériot encountered problems—he got lost and his engine overheated—he managed to land safely • The flight took 37 minutes

  7. Le Grand • Russian pilot Igor Sikorsky designed a four-engine aircraft called Le Grand • He flew it on 13 May 1913 • He used four 100-horsepower engines to lift the 92-foot-wingspan airplane VS-300 in 1939

  8. Rotary Engines • The earliest engines were relatively heavy and inefficient • One reason was that these early engines used water as a coolant • Brothers Laurent and Gustav Seguin of France set out to reduce the motor weight • Their solution? Rotary engines

  9. Blanche Stuart Scott • Scott was Glenn Curtiss’s only female student in 1910 • Scott had become the first American woman to solo in a fixed-wing airplane

  10. Bessie Coleman • Bessie Coleman faced two obstacles to becoming a pilother race and her gender; she overcame both • In 1921 Coleman became the first black woman to get a pilot’s license • She had to go to France for training because no flight school in the United States would accept her • She died in an airplane crash only four years after getting her license

  11. Harriet Quimby • In 1911, Quimby became the first American woman to earn her pilot’s license • She was also the first woman to fly at night (1911) and to pilot across the English Channel (1912) • She broke a fashion barrier, too, by designing and wearing a jumpsuit

  12. Overview • Key individuals involved in early aircraft development • The names and anatomy of period aircraft • The significance of other American pioneers in aviation following the Wright brothers

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