1. Transportation Systems
HISTORY OF AVIATION
Transportation Systems
All notes are in RED

2. Lighter than Air vehicles
Balloons
Blimps, Dirigibles

3. Airships: Hindenburg- bursts into flames New Jersey 1937
Stops Airship use
Hindenberg exploding

4. Early airplanes - Propeller
Wright Brothers –
Orville and Wilbur

5. Prepping the Wright Flyer for takeoff...

6. Charles Lindberg 1927 Spirit of St. Louis flies across the Atlantic.
The first solo Transatlantic flight with instruments.

7. Charles Lindberg, won the $25,000 cash prize that a NY hotel tycoon had put up for the first aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and land in Paris, France.

8. First woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
Amelia Earhart
First woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
One of the first woman flying instructors
Flew from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast solo on several occasions.
Amelia wanted to end her career by flying around the world...

9. Unfortunately, Amelia’s plane went down 35 miles off the coast of Howland Island. In the South Pacific Islands.

10. Jet-engine airplanes Chuck Yeager
1947 breaks the sound barrier:Bell X-1

11. Jet Engine Marvels; by 1964 top speed reaches over Mach 3; SR-71A spyplane
SLOW FLYBY
FAST FLYBY

13. TOP SPEED: 2300mph
Altitude: 85,000 ft

14. WWI War time aircraft
Planes evolving from observation missions to air to air combat
First air to air combat was having the pilots shoot at each other with their hand pistols

15. Fokker Dr.1 German airplane
Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen
Red Baron - Shot down around 80 allied airplanes makes him the #1 flying ace of WWI

16. World War II
Planes evolve even further to allow the ability to do more jobs
Planes are built for:
Dog fighting
Surveillance
Bombing
B-25 Mitchell

17. WWII Allied planes
P-40 Warhawk
P-51 Mustang
P-38 Lightning

18. WWII Axis planes Stuka dive bomber Japanese Zero
Me 262: first Jet fighter

19. ME 262 JET PLANE
Germany was the only country to use JET fighters toward the end of WWII.
ME262s were really fast, but they had to slow down to engage Allied propeller planes which gave us the advantage.

20. Commercial Jet Liners
Transport passengers and cargo as fast and comfortable as possible.
With a unstable economy, most companies are filing for bankruptcy

21. ...the future…perhaps!