AVIA 1903 - Chapter 6

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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


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