The most appropriate place to start is on the Seventeenth of December in 1903, the brothers Orville and Wilber Wright flew the first powered aircraft a total of 120 feet in 12 seconds. Wilber the eldest, and younger brother Orville always were fascinated by flight. During their childhood, gliders and balloons were being used. Painstaking efforts were made by them later in life to create an efficiently powered craft. They had used aerodynamics tables set forth by Langley to test their own gliders. They found that the tables didn't provide enough lift to get hardly anything off the ground. So they set out to forge their own tables by expereimenting with two-hundred different wing designs in a home-made wind tunnel. They invalidated Langley's aerodynamics tables. From there with the help of mechanic Charles Taylor, they were able

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Amelia Aerhart is another notable person that sacrificed herself for the furtherance of air transportation. She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic-from Newfoundland to North Ireland, 2,026 miles. She did it in 1932. But this wasn't enough. In 1937 she wanted to circle the globe at the equator. Unfortunately she missed the tiny Howeland Island in the pacific and was never seen again.

Other essential people in aviation include Glen Curtiss, Charles Lindbergh, and Ilray Jeppeson. Glen Curtiss flew from Albany to New York in 1910, which crushed the previous distance record of 24 miles. His flight amounted to 143 total miles. Curtiss was also a pioneer in early engines. Charles Lindbergh is credited for the first flight across the Atlantic from New York to Paris. His flight on the 20th of May, 1927 took him an amazing 33 hours and 20 minutes. His plane "The Spirit of Saint Louis" traveled 3,610 miles. Lindbergh thrilled everyone in the states and convinced people that airplanes were'nt just for barnstorming shows. They could be used for the transportation of mail, cargo, and even people. This was all a fairly new concept. Ilray Jeppeson was a pioneer in the area of flight navigation. In the 1920's he was an air mail pilot who methodicly charted and mapped reference points and hazards. Soon his fellow employees wanted copies, and the business was born. Later he provided navigation charts and maps to almost every major airport in the world. Finally, I will mention a critical flight made by Louis Bleriot across the English Channel. Bleriot was a mechanical tinkerer. Kind of like Bell's father in Beauty and the Beast. Bleriot was in the headlight business but sought to build an airplane. He accomplished this when he engineered the Model XI monoplane in 1909. With predictable blundering style, he finished the 22 mile stretch across the channel by crashing his overheated craft near Dover Castle. He captured the imaginations of all who heard about it.

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