AMTE REVIEWER W2

AMTE 113
Icarus - 30 BCE. Greek Mythology.

Mozi (Mo Di) and lu Ban (Gongshu ban) - 5th Century BC, Chines Philosopher
(kites)

Leonardo Da Vinci - 1400s,Sketches of flying machines.

(Ornithopter and Helical Aerial Screw)

Hot Air Balloon

Joseph - Michel Montgolfier
Jacques- Efferne Montgolfier (Montgolfier Brothers)
⁃ They designed and invented the Hot Air Balloon in November 21, 1783.

Glinder
Sir George Cayley (The father of Aeronautics)
⁃ He invented the glinder in 1809-1853.

Otto Lilienthal (Glinder King)

⁃ A German pioneer and the first to make well documented, repeated, successful
glinding flights. But died in 1896 when his glider stalled at a height of 50ft.

Clement Adler (The Eole inventor)

⁃ A french inventor who focused much of his life on heavier than air powered flight
in
1891. he invented The Eole a bat-like a light weight steam engine. The Eole successfully
hopped 50m at a height of 8 inch

Ferdinand Von Zeppelin (Zeppelin) 1900

⁃ The inventor of rigid airships, airships or dirigible balloon a type of lighter than air
aircraft that can navigate thru air, since 1960s. Airships used helium.

Karl Jatho
⁃ A German aviation pioneer, who attempted flight using triple-planes and bi-
planes. He eventually gave up, noting “In spite of many efforts, I cannot make longer or
higher flights. Motor weak.” In November 1903.

Samuel Pierpont Langley (Manned Aerodrome)

⁃ An American pioneer in Aviation. He successfully made heavier than air flight,
but was not able to control it. After two failed attempts in the Potomac river in October 7,
1903, The wright Flew he could succeed.

Wright Brothers
• Wilbur Wright
• Orville Wright
⁃ Are the First human to have a powered, controlled, heavier than air flight in
December 17 1903 at Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Four Flight were made. The first
is 12 seconds and last for 59 seconds.

Archimedes Rotating Screw (234 BC)

⁃ Archimedes introduced the Rotating screw to Greece

Robert Hooke
⁃ A Mathematician, physicist, and an inventor in 1655. He included that “the human
body does not possess the strength to the power artificial wings.”

Octave Chanute (Railroad and Bridge Engineer)

⁃ He Published the “Progress in Flying Machines” in 1890 and He Published all the
aeronautical knowledge known to date.

Louis Bleriot
⁃ He built an aircraft with notable design and invented a mono-wing aircraft in
1909.

Hugo Junkers
⁃ He invented a all metal aircraft named J-1 and eliminated all wood in 1910.

Louis Charles Breguet

⁃ He invented the Breguet-14 to used as bomber and reconnaissance plane for WWI
in 1920.

Curtiss HS-2L
⁃ Curtiss Airplane company build a single-engine patrol flying boat during World
War I. It used to carry out anti-submarine patrols and converted into passenger aircraft
after WWI.

NOTABLE CONTRIBUTES TO REMEMBER

Charles Lindbergh
• May 21, 1927, He is the first pilot to win the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop
flight from New York City to Paris.
• His Total Flight time from New York to Paris was 33 hours, 30 minutes and 29.8
seconds.
• It is first solo transatlantic flight.
• The spirit of St. Louis

Geoffrey De Havilland
• He invented the DH-Mosquito fighter aircraft in 1930 for WWII and its frame was
constructed mostly of wood and with fiber glass radome.

Amelia Earhart (The first woman pilot)

• In 1928, she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger.
• May 21 1932, she became the first woman to pilot an airplane solo across the
Atlantic.
• In 1935, she completed the first woman’s solo. Nonstop transcontinental flight
which covered 2,448 niles from Los Angeles to Newark.
• July 2, 1937, she attempted to fly around the world but she failed.

Robert Stanley
• October 1, 1942, the first turbojet aircraft is invented named Bell XP-59A and it
was piloted by Robert Stanley

Capt. Charles Yeager

• October 14, 1947, Capt. Charles Yeager piloted the air launched experimental Bell
X-1 rocket propelled.
• He become the first man to fly an aircraft beyond the speed of sound.