Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was born on the ninth of February 1897 Hamilton Brisbane. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was usually called Smithy as his nickname. In 1928 Smith was so popular because he made the first trans-pacific flight from the United States to Australia. He made it from Australia Mainlands through New Zealand and Australia nonstop in 1928 as well and the first eastward crossing from australia to the United States. At 16 Smith became an engineering apprentice with colonial sugar refining company. He served in Gallipoli he was placed duty for a motorcycle dispatch rider. Before going to the royal flying corps earning his pilot wings in 1917. In august 1917 Smith was shot down and had injuries while serving in 23 squadron. He was awarded a military cross but he also …show more content…
Smith also owned a Avro plane and in 1922 he also flew it to Cowra to meet his old partner. Richard and Smith flew underneath the Cowra traffic bridge together, they also wanted to attempt flying under railway bridge. But Richard found out the telephone line was cut off so he flew the aircraft and turned it to land only seconds from impact. In 1928 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm they travelled to United States to find a aircraft. On the 31 of March in 1929 Smith took a route from Sydney to England but something went wrong and he had to make an emergency landing on Mudflat near the Mouth of the Glenelg river in the Kimberley Region of North Western Australia. In June 1930 Smith achieved a East West crossing from Atlantic to Ireland thirty one and a half hours. In Portmarnock Beach just North of Dublin. In 1931 Smith purchased a Avro Avian he made an attempt to fly from Australia-to-England. After that he sold the plane to Captain W.N Who disappeared in April the 11th 1933. In 1934 Smith bought a Lockheed Altair he used the plane to compete in the MacRobertson Air Race but he didn't get to make it to England in time for the race to
Looking back upon the decade, the 1920s has been filled with many individuals who have changed our society. But there is one person who stands out among this group of people, Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly solo overseas, thus winning the Orteig Prize for his accomplishment. Nicknamed “The Lone Eagle”, Lindbergh has opened up the possibilities of overseas travels to us.
Charles Lindbergh studied mechanical engineering and he was the first person to solo travel for non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on 1927. He was trained in the US Army as an Army Air Reserve pilot and he worked as an airmail pilot after his training under the U.S Army. The Air Mail Act 1925 was the first legislation targeted to free airmail services from controlled Post Office Department. His influence in aviation industry shown that one pilot can cross in a long distance with no accurate forecast and a 34 hours flight to Paris which made him as an international hero.
In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis to act as his private secretary. Meriwether Lewis was a skilled frontiersman and an amateur scientist. Around 1804 Thomas Jefferson made Meriwether Lewis another offer, he asked him if he would led an expedition into the lands west of the Mississippi. Lewis asked one of his closet friend, William Clark, if he would join Lewis in this expedition; William Clark agreed to be his co-captain. Meriwether Lewis was an extraordinary man for the things he's accomplished as a frontiersman, amateur scientist, an intellectual and a explorer.
Charles Cullen was born on February 22, 1960, in West Orange, New Jersey. He was the youngest of eight siblings. His father worked as a bus driver, and died at age 58 when Cullen was only seven months old. Two of his siblings also died in adulthood. His mother was a stay at home mom who raised the eight children. Charles Cullen described his life as miserable, he attempted suicide at age nine by drinking chemicals he got out of a chemistry set, he attempted suicide a total of twenty times throughout his life. On December 6, 1977, when Cullen was 17 years old his mother died in a car accident, while his sister was behind the wheel. After this accident, Charles Cullen was devastated and decided to drop out of high school and join the Navy. Cullen
The Wright brother's flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903 was the first powered flight recorded. Louis Blèriot made the first powered crossing of the English Channel in 1909. As expected, aircraft remained simple in 1914. A new recruit had a higher chance of being killed during training than during combat in The Royal Flying Corps in the autumn of 1914. The first British navigation of an aircraft that flew off from England to fly to bases in France for the first time in war history, was based on reading a map while in air and, if the clouds allowed, looking out for landmarks on the ground to guide the pilots.
William Clark was ½ of the genius team that made their way through miles of unknown land, unknown nature, unknown natives, and came home with all but one voyager, who was killed of natural causes. William Clark and Meriwether Lewis were the first Americans to try and map the Louisiana Purchase area, and not only did they map it, they discovered allies, new plants and animals, and discovered new land and water routes that could be useful for future travelers.
John Smith was born in either 1579 or 1580 in Lincolnshire, England. This was so far back in time that it makes it hard for historians to be able to retrieve medical documents for people. After Smith had been a merchant’s apprentice, he had decided he wanted to live in combat, and he joined the English Army overseas. Smith had proved to be highly successful in the army and he joined in on a campaign against Henry IV, he also went against the Turks in Hungary. When Smith was in Hungary he was captured and enslaved. He was sent to serve a kindhearted mistress who didn’t want Smith as her slave, so she sent him to her brother’s, where he was forced to do farm work. He later killed the farmer who was holding him captive as a slave and made he made his way back to England.
Smith not only changed the way of thinking in regards to trading, he helped create a world where free trade and capitalism has flourished. His life began at his baptism in Kirkcaldy, Scotland on June 5. 1723 His mother became a widower when her father died two months before his birth. Smith spent most of his infancy dealing with sickness.
Sir John Alexander Macdonald was the first prime minister of Canada. He was born on January 11, 1815 and passed away on June 6, 1891. He grew up in Scotland, Glasgow and moved to Kingston, Upper Canada when he was 5. His father was an unsuccessful merchant who operated many general stores. As a child he attended the Midland District Grammar School. He then dropped out when he got an opportunity to work for a law office, he kept this job for 5 years. He later regretted his decision of not finishing school. But, it helped him when he was given the responsibility to take care of his family since his father had passed away. Without finishing school early he wouldn’t be fit to take care of his family. His first job was being a lawyer followed by
Kiki Smith is an American artist who was born on January 18th, 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany. Her father, Tony Smith, was a minimalist sculptor and her mother, Jane Lawrence, was a popular American actress and opera singer.
After Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic in May of 1927, the idea of a woman performing the same task sprouted in the minds of many different people. On April, 1928 in a phone call from Captain Hilton H. Riley, Amelia was asked to fly across the Atlantic, she was thrilled by this and answered “yes”. Soon after the call she was chosen to be on a transatlantic flight, as a passenger. On June 17, 1928 Amelia set off to fly across the Atlantic, but not alone she flew with a pilot by the name of Louis E. Shultz, who did most of the flying, she hoped to one day to fly it alone. After “her flight” across the Atlantic she was welcomed back by a parade in her honor, and wet with president Calvin Coolidge in the Whitehouse. From the flight the press named her “Lady Lindy” from Charles Lindbergh's nickname “Lucky Lindy”. When more technology came out, on such things as navigation Earhart decided to stick with her gut. On the 5th anniversary Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic, Amelia announced that she would conduct a solo flight herself, making her the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. Earhart took off on the date of May 20, 1932 but on July 2, 1937 Amelia and her navigator, Frank Noonan disappeared, many people believe that she lost fuel around Howland Island and quickly sunk, but no one is actually sure what happened to Amelia
On December 1927, when Anne was a 21 year old. Senior in college she soon met Charles. Charles was considered to be the most famous man in the world after completing the first-ever nonstop solo transatlantic flight on May 27 of that year. Charles Lindbergh was visiting the Morrow home in Mexico City, where Anne’s father Dwight Morrow was serving as the American Ambassador to Mexico. Anne and Charles started to date which soon lead them to fall in love. After dating they got married two years later, making headlines all over the world after a simple ceremony at the Morrows' New Jersey home. “…the Monday afternoon of May 27, 1929 , Anne and Charles were married at Englewood. As twenty relatives and family friends looked on” ( Winters, 58). The
But, unlike Babe Ruth showing determination in his early years, Lindbergh showed his determination later on during his 20s to eventually become the first solo pilot to fly across the Atlantic. Lindbergh actually started out going to engineering school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison but then dropping out during the middle of his sophomore year. He transferred over to the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation, even though he had never even close enough to touch an airplane. Lindbergh finally took flight for the first time after two months on April 9, 1922. Excited and eager to take his first flight, Lindbergh didn’t have enough money to post a bond of insurance in case of a crash or injury. He did not let that stop him from his dreams and went barnstorming as a wing walker and as a parachutist around multiple states. On May 1923, Lindbergh flew solo for his first time and knew it definitely was not going to be his last. After this, he worked as an air mail pilot for the U.S. Air Mail Service for a couple years until in 1927, on May 20 he flew the first solo flight over the Atlantic lasting 33 ½ hours. This feat had the greatest impact on America because “people were behaving as if Lindbergh had walked on water, not flown over it.” (A. Scott Berg). Every newspaper and magazine wanted to interview him which began the
Breaking news: An American dentist by the name of William Morton has found a way to reduce many patients agony during medical surgery. This substance he has used that works is called ether,which is anaesthesia. Before Morton had found ether there were other ways to knock out patients such as alcohol,but that put patients at high risk of complications.It has also been known that the older methods were not reliably effective. It was Dr. Morton’s willingness to protect patients from extreme pain while in medical surgery that will change the medical future.
Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator who made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic ocean.