Five classic the History Guy episodes on founders of powered flight. Nearly a full hour of the History Guy!
00:00 The Daily Mail and Aviation Challenges
08:56 Richard Pearse: New Zealand’s Aviation Pioneer and Forgotten Dreamer
20:12 Airplane Evolution and Alexander Industries
26:46 USS Pennsylvania and The Birth of Naval Aviation
39:00 The NACA: The Most Important Government Agency You Never Heard Of.
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No mentention of Montgomery, whose wing warping system and other research was stolen by the Wrights. No mention of Lyman Gilmore.
I have a picture hanging over my desk of a biplane firmly planted in a lone tree in the middle of an otherwise empty field. The caption read: “Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous it is, however, completely unforgiving of incapacity, careless or neglect.” Words to live by as we go aviating through the clouds and reach out a hand and touch the face of God.
There are nothing like money and fame to spur innovation. On a more serious note, The Daily Mail Challenges is a lesson on risk management. The paper was willing to pay at zero risk to itself. The adventurous took 100% of the risk hoping the cash would cover their costs.
Within 8-10 years, powered aviation was instrumental in changing warfare.
And Santos deMont from Brasil in 1901 in France.
This presentation contains a treasure trove of little known information that any aircraft nut (like me) will certainly appreciate. Many thanks History Guy.
20:01… what happened to your hair ? Loose a bet ?
27:01… Wow your hair grew back fast….😉
Again not a word about my mom's distant relative , who was the first woman to fly the English Channel in April 1912! She got her plane from Beloit personally!
God gave man rule and dominion over the world, which would have included flight!
I used to work at a hospice. One day a lady came in to enroll herself into our services. While waiting for a intake nurse I sat and chatted with her. Found out she was 108, completely mentally clear and social, so I asked her things about life as a woman of her age and what was the most interesting thing she's seen growing up. She then told me that her father had taken her to watch Theodore Roosevelt fly in Missouri on the Wright brothers plane and her great grandson worked for NASA.
The innovation she witnessed has always left me astounded.
Having been near aircraft, (I lived near Cleveland Hopkins airport) and worked on aircraft while in the Navy, I can certainly appreciate this video.
Aviation history has the tendency to be mostly unknown or forgotten. Many men and women too, contributed much, but were mostly ignored or also unknown.
I learned much today. Thanks for the history lesson Lance, I really enjoyed class today. 😉
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Clipper Gas Refill Stop .
love your videos
My grandfather was five years old when the airplane was first invented. That just seems crazy.
Henri Farman won the prize for carrying the first passenger, a case of champagne, and started the first regular airline, post WW1, flying from London to Paris, cheekily using RAF Kenley without any permission in order to avoid airport fees until the station commander confronted him with a cricket bat and from then they paid their way at Croydon Airport.
You should to an episode about George Cayley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley#:~:text=He%20constructed%20the%20first%20flying,provide%20adequate%20thrust%20and%20lift.
Hey History Guy, your reports are beautifully, scholarly, professionally done. Are you giving archive copies to any schools? These are going to be valuable historic resources in a few hundred ++ years. A preservation archive seems a must. Thank you, History Guy.
@2:22 Peirce was oft seen making hops in his plane! but he never considered it true flight unless it was consistent stable and endurant I.e. proper flight not just a catapult assisted hop like the wright brothers claimed as flight. Problem was he had standards.
Awesome!
Kept on waiting for mention of Alexander santos du mont
KITTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The first public demonstration of manned flight in the western hemisphere was in Santa Clara California on April 29, 1905 in a glider built by John Joseph Montgomery. Pilot Daniel Maloney made a controlled flight down, dropped from a hot air balloon from 4,000 ft in front of hundreds of onlookers. Montgomery had been experimenting with manned glider flights since 1883-84. In 1906, Montgomery he was awarded a U.S. patent for the “aeroplane.”
Alexander Graham Bell said, “All subsequent attempts in aviation must begin with the Montgomery machine.”
Montgomery deserves to be remembered.
Excellent coverage, and in-depth digging into real hustory of aviation.
As an ex pilot, I applaud solid aviation history, not the diluted version we often see.
I still enjoy Bleriot's aircraft design, one of my favorites.
A couple notes: a piece of the original Wright Flyer was actually taken to the Moon and back. Also, the Boeing 737 is one of the most successful aircraft of all time, and at any given time, there are approximately 250,000 people off the surface of the earth aboard 737's.
My grandmother was a 99. A group of women aviators.
Interesting differences in your haircuts, H.G. !
Actually, a full-sized man-carrying replica of Whitehead's machine has flown, and fairly well. Though not as prolific with a camera as the Wrights, there are many very detailed photographs of Whitehead's machine showing the structure and control system. Unfortunately, it was steam powered and Whitehead wasn't as scientific in his endeavors as the Wrights and wasn't able to learn and improve on his early success.
A favorite aviation real story. Winston Churchill, War time Prime Minister was taking a plane from England to the Us. He asked the Pilot if he could sit in the Co-pilot seat. The pilot very cordially asked when was the last time he (Churchill) had been in the cockpit of an airplane. Winston replied 1912. Years before the pilot had been borne. (Winston was one of the first pilots in England)
Bamboo Dick. Fighter planes hadn't even been invented yet and the dude already won the pilot callsign game.
"Considered by many" in regard to the Wright Brothers. Seriously? What other verified flight preceded? Who figured out propellers, the coefficient of lift or adverse yaw? I'll wait
It would be worthwhile to do a video on Dame Mary Bailey as she is a little known aviation pioneer (1st December 1890 to 28th August 1960). She was the daughter of Derrick Warner William Westenra, the 5th Baron Rossmore (1853-1921). Between 1905 and 1914 she was known to be driving a car and a motorbike and is known for speeding in one of these.
She wed the 1st Baronet of Craddock, Sir Abraham Bailey (1864-1940) at The Church of Holy Trinity, in Chelsea, London, on the 5th September 1911.
She served as a mechanic working on British planes on the Western Front and later she achieved 3 aviation records in less than a year, July 1927- April 1928. The last one was the first flight from London to Cape Town. This led to the awarding of a D.B.E.
I am genealogically linked to her.
What about Lawn Chair Larry Walters? The Smithsonian wanted the lawn chair.