AVIA 1903 - Chapter 6
Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1935 - Italian troops invaded with modern war machines
Beryl Markham
1st and 2nd person to fly the North Atlantic solo east to west and complete an east-to-west airplane flight
Luft Hansa experimented with a ship-to-land airmail service
A catapult was used to launch the plane of a ship
Deutsche Luft Hansa
Began installing radios on large transport planes in 1926
First 3 modern airliners
Boeing 247, Douglas DC-2, Lockheed 10 Electra
MacRobertson Air Race
C.W.A. Scott and T. Campbell Black won; Flew a de Havilland 88 Comet
Allan Mollison
First East-to-West Solo Crossing, and first to fly solo/nonstop from North America to London
Radio
First radio-equipped control tower built in 1930 at Cleveland Municipal Airport
Lord Clydesdale and Steward Blacke
First to fly over Mt. Everest
Douglas Corrigan
Flew across the Atlantic after he "intended" to fly to California
Byrd Antarctic Expedition
Flew over the South Pole and flew a Ford Trimotor; First nonstop flight from the soviet union to the US
Aeropostale
Flight from St. Louis, Senegal to Natal, Brazil; Demonstrated the aerial possibilities of service across the South Atlantic
Dole's Pacific Air Race to Hawaii
Fly Nonstop From Oakland, Art Goebel & navigator William V. Davis were the winners
German Airships
Hugo Eckener, head of Zeppelin, disliked Nazi politics; Nazis used airships for propaganda
British Airlines
Imperial Airways remained conservative with 22 airplanes
Autogiros
Invented by Juan de la Cierva
Japan
Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, and Nakajima finally started producing aircraft
French Aviation
Latecoere continued as an airplane manufacturer in Toulouse; Air France used a Caudron-Simoun 180HP airplane
Goodwill Tours
Lindbergh's flight proved the reliability of aircraft and demonstrated the safety of civil aviation
Radios
Lt. Jimmy Doolittle (flew the first 'instrument flight' in 1929)
Air France
Merged from 5 different airlines because of a scandal
Orteig Prize
Nonstop flight from NYC to Paris, Lindbergh requested a monoplane with single engine and an additional fuel tank
Jeppesen
Pilots needed detailed information about the routes they flew
Airmail Scandal
Postmaster General James A. Farley cancelled all airmail contracts; DC-3 formed out of this
Polar Flights
Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett reached the north pole
Gliding
Robert Kronfeld deliberately flew into a storm into 1929 and proved thermals could be used to aid flight
Compagnie Generale Aeropostale
Started airmail service between France and South America (1928)
Awards won by Charles Lindbergh
The Orteig Prize, Legion of Honor, and Promotion to Colonel
Non Stop Transatlantic Flight
Took off from Roosevelt Field on May 20, 1927
Charles Lindbergh
United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in the Spirit of St. Louis
US Tour
Washington DC to Mexico City
Spanish Civil War
civil war in Spain in which General Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government
Francesco de Pinedo
first to cross the south atlantic in stages
Amelia Earhart
first woman aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic (1928)
Howard Hughes
flew around the world in 1938; Established speed, endurance, and distance records
Air Mail Act of 1925
stimulated the formation of airlines in the US
Chaco War
war fought between Paraguay and Bolivia