This is the second part of a review in two parts aviation from its origins to today. This is a subjective look at some of the highlights of the development of air transport during the centuries.
Glenn Hammond Curtiss, who was also called air traffic until 1908, he won first prize in the U.S., the Scientific American Trophy for a flight, as he calls the "June Bug" 5090 feet (1552m), first flown in 5 min 42 sec on July 4, 1908. Curtiss also went on to win the first InternationalSpeed event, at about 47 mph (75.6 kph), August 28, 1910. He also became the first American to develop and fly a seaplane - the first flight by seaplane success with Henri Fabre in France on 28 in March 1910.
Before the Second World War, the airplane design greatly improved. Pusher biplanes (two wings of the aircraft engine and propeller behind the wing) were carried out with the tractor biplanes (two wings of aircraft engine and propeller in front of the wing) was successful. MonoplaneDrawings have been rare, and when World War I began, huge biplane bombers were developed from two to four engines. Airmail was also started, although it only lasted a week. The first airmail officially approved by the U.S. Post Office Department began September 23, 1911 and the pilot (Earle Ovington) carried the mail on the legs and tossed the bag overboard when he reached his goal. Even in 1911 the first transcontinental flight in the United States Calbraith P. Rodgers has been completed.His flight from New York to California took 3 days, 10 hours and 14 minutes and was one of Wright aircraft.
During World War II aviation made great strides in the design and manufacture of aircraft. Equally important was the experience that won the first pilots of fighter planes in dog fighting maneouvers antenna is required. Von Richthofen, Rickenbacker, and many others have been so successful because they had learned to cope with their planes.
Some incredibleProgress has taken place in the record for aviation between 1919 and 1926. Captain EF White made a nonstop flight from Chicago to New York (727 km - 1170 km) in 1919 and Lieutenant Oakley Kelly and Lieutenant John A. Macready made the first transcontinental non-stop flight on May 2 - May 3, 1923. And in the first round the world flight was made 6 to 28 September 1924; This flight was made from Roosevelt Field, Long Island Rockwell Field, San Diego. Also in 1919, the firstnon-stop transatlantic flight by John William Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown June 14 - June 15. It did take a little 'more than 16 hours, and won the "Daily Mail" price of $ 50,000.
Mail also took an important turn in the course of these years. In 1925, Congress passed the Kelly Air Mail act which authorized the Post Office Department contract with air carriers. This made it possible for the U.S. mail by air, and after that, the pet decreases after 14The companies were created in 1926.
The Charles A. May 20, 1927 Off Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis from Roosevelt Field near New York, landing in Paris in 33 1 / 2 hours later.
The largest operator of all international airlines in operation before the Second World War, Pan American Airways. Pan American served 46 countries and colonies that links all the continents and most oceans. His giant seaplanes were known throughout the world as the Flying Clippers.
Pan American World Airwayswas founded in 1927 with a few single engine aircraft and a route from Key West, Florida to Havana. From these beginnings, the airline that would literally open the world of aviation. Pan Am launched more new aircraft development than any other airline in history. And 'experienced paths circling over the oceans and continents, eventually operating flights a day compared to the global system.
During the Second World War, the planes were a decisive factor in war and aviation in general was hugeSteps forward. Small plane has increased considerably. Before the Second World War, only about 193,000 people are employed in the aeronautical sector and in 1941 the number rose to 450,000, in addition, there were about 3.375 million passengers carried by 18 U.S. airlines at this time, about 1 million more than in 1940. Air mail and express freight will also increase by about 30 percent. But at the end of World War II, a new frontier of flight would take shape, jet and rocket propulsionAircraft.
After the Second World War and until 1947 all the basic technologies needed for aviation had been developed, the jet propulsion, aerodynamics, radar, etc. civilian aircraft orders drastically increased from 6,844 in 1941 to 40,000 in the late 1945. One of the leading entrepreneurs of small military was the Boeing Company, then the largest aircraft manufacturer in the world. With all the new technologies that were developed by this time the largest airplane, faster, and features a pressurized cabin.New aerodynamic design, metals and power would lead to high-speed jet aircraft. These aircraft would then be able to fly at supersonic speed and transoceanic flights regularly.
One of the most famous recording flight in aviation at this time of the Voyager was designed by Burt Rutan. The flight, maintaining an average speed of 115.8 mph (186.3 kmh), lasted 9 days, 3 minutes, 44 seconds and covered 25,012 miles (40254 km) and was completed in December1986
