There are many pioneers who carved the way for the modern aviation industry that we see today. This essay is about the aviation pioneer named Howard Hughes. Howard was raised in a wealthy household. As a young man, he was fascinated with aviation. Instead of sitting in a classroom, he preferred tinkering away on mechanical objects. He was a playboy billionaire who spent a majority of his wealth innovating within the aviation industry and film making. His contributions to aviation seemed boundless. He produced films, set flying records, and was an innovator to some of the world’s first aircraft. He was truly one of the greatest aviators in world history.
Howard Hughes
The 1930's was a time of great innovations that propelled the aviation industry
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His father was a successful inventor (he created the two cone roller bit for petroleum drilling) and business man. At a very young age Howard demonstrated great interest in math, science, and technology. At the age of 11 he created the first wireless radio transmitter. Howard was also the first boy in Houston to have a motorized bicycle, which he had built from an old steam engine, and took his first flying lessons at the age of 14. There is no doubt Howard was extremely intelligent and was destined to do great things. Tragically, at 16 years old, Howard's mother died from complications of an ectopic pregnancy and a couple years later when Howard turned 19 his father passed away from a heart attack. The deaths of his mother and father inspired him to later create the medical research laboratory which would be named the Howard Hughes Medical …show more content…
He became a successful director and produced several films that got him his first Academy Award for Best Director. Some of Howard's film included “Everybody's Acting” (1927), “Two Arabian Knights” (1928), “The Racket” (1928) and “The Front Page” (1931). But Howard's biggest and most expensive production, with a price tag of $3.8 million, was called “Hell's Angels” (1930). It was an aviation war movie where Howard flew in some of the scenes during production. Howard enjoyed producing films and dabbling in real estate but Howard also had another passion and that was
Lindbergh’s passion for mechanics didn’t come as a surprise to many. As a young boy, Charles seemed to be very interested in the family’s motorized vehicles, such as the Saxon Six automobile and Excelsior motorbike. But after starting college in the fall of 1920 as a mechanical engineer, his love for aviation started to bloom. Deciding that the field of aviation was more exciting, he dropped out within 2 years. He then decided to take lessons at the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation’s flying school and was up in the air for the first time on April 9, 1922 when he was in a two seat biplane as a passenger. But his solo flight would not be until May 1923 at the Souther Field in Americus, Georgia, an old flight training field where Lindbergh came to buy a World War I Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” biplane. It only took half an hour to practice with another pilot at the field to decide that Lindbergh was ready to fly the plane himself. After a week of practicing, Lindbergh took off on his biplane on his first solo cross country flight and few weeks after that, achieving his first nighttime flight near Arkansas, both marking huge milestones for the young pilot.
A black man that’s falls in love with planes and would never give on his dream to become a pilots from everyone and everything that got in his way didn’t stop him that’s what I really love about him and glad to tell the story of the furthermost man ever to change history for black people who has a dream to fly and this is the story of Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Was born in Washington D.C on December 18, 1921 and he was the second of three children. The parents of Benjamin O. Davis were Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. and Elnora Dickerson Davis, but if you didn’t know about his father was a U.S. Army Davis was in the army for 41 years before he got promoted to a brigadier general in the fall of October 1940. At the age of 13 of Benjamin O Davis Jr life on the summer of 1926, Davis went for a flight with a barnstorming pilot, however if you don’t know what a barnstorming pilot was they were a group of pilots that did tricks in the USA in the 1920, that stunt pilots would execute trick with airplane for entertainment. The experience led to his willpower to turn out to be a pilot himself. He was the prime officer to get his wings since the Tuskegee Army Air Field on March 7, 1942. (http://www.aldine.k12.tx.us)
Canadian Air Force Office of Public Affairs. (1996). The Flying Career of William Avery Bishop. [WWW Document] Retrieved May 2nd, 2001 from the World Wide Web: http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/comment/bishop.html
Nancy Harkness Love was one of the most influential women in aviation history. Born in 1914, the Houghton, Michigan native was the daughter of Dr. Robert and Alice Harkness. She studied at Milton Academy and Vassar, and had had her pilot’s license since the age of sixteen, while in high school. When at Milton Academy, a school that was strict about driving policies but did not have any rules against flying, she flew through a boy’s school’s campus as a prank, and got into trouble for it. When she left college, she took jobs in Beechcraft and Waco selling aircrafts before working for Inter-City Air Lines, owned and run by a young Princeton and MIT alumnus named Robert Love, whom she later married.
In fact, several black men across the nation had mastered many of the key technological aspects of flight. There were many black aviators amongst the earliest fliers of transcontinental flights. For example James Banning, who learned to fly from a...
It was the year 1919 when Raymond Orteig – a hotel owner- offered a $25,000 prize to the first successful pilot, or group of pilots, in the flight between New York and Paris. By the year 1923 the prize still lay unclaimed and the only attempt was a nonstop flight of 2,500 miles from San Diego to New York. Being the courageous and adventurous soul he is, Charles Lindbergh desired to take the challenge as soon as he discovered this news (Hanson, 1999, p._?_). Having much experience wit...
Thesis- The Wright Brothers took a stand in history by not only creating the first airplane but by developing aviation technology that influenced the modern world air travel
Wilbur Wright once said, “The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.” He changed American culture forever when he made the first flight alongside his brother Orville. This invention would have an even greater impact on our culture than cars. Although cars are used every day in America, planes have had the largest impact on American culture. Without planes, our lives would be drastically different, but not in a good way. Airplanes had a major impact on military, commerce, and travel.
“No bird soars in a calm”- Wilbur Wright. The biography by David McCullough was about two American innovative brothers who are better known as The Wright Brothers. Not only were they inventors, they were also the very first aviation pioneers. Meaning they were the first to ever set foot on a glider and fly it. “If birds can glide for long periods of time, then… why can't I?” (The Wright Brothers 106) The Wright Brothers were astonished by the fact that all of these secrets regarding aviation were preserved for years just for them to discover it.
During his lifetime he was known as the wealthier self-made man in the world. Howard Hughes’ riches directly and indirectly helped America’s economy flourish for many decades. For one, Hollywood films accounts for a portion of U.S goods and service revenues. Also, he created many job opportunities for men who could not seek job during the depression and beyond. Two, Hughes was known for spending excessively thought-out his life and more so towards he later adulthood. He purchased an entire Nevada hotel, after refusing to leave when asked. He became Navada’s biggest landlord. Hughes went on a one hundred million dollar buying spree; he bought casinos, local airport, and a television station. All of which helped expand America’s economy. Also,
Back in the 1920’s when commercial aviation was a fairly new technology it was a slow business. In the 1930’s, the DC-3 was introduced and the airline industry started to become more profitable. The original DC-1 and its successor the DC-2 were both well known planes during their times. Since Douglas was well known for their prowess in engineering, American A...
Howard Robert Hughes was born in Huston, Texas in 1905(Moore 92). His father, Robert Hughes, became well known for building oil drilling tools for major corporations such as Standard oil (Nicholas 48). His mother Jane was a frail woman who had a serious case of obsessive compulsive disorder towards hygiene and lived and made her son live in fear of germs for his whole life (Simikin 10). At the age of 52, Robert Hughes died of stomach cancer and left his company to his son Howard (Nicholas 48). Having no interest in the oil machinery business, Howard left the company to his cousins and left Texas.
Wilbur and Orville Wright spent their lives building and working with mechanical devices. They began with little toys as children and then grew up and began working with bicycles. These works lead them towards their work with airplanes. The Wright Brothers tried for many years to build a successful flying machine and succeeded. The Wright Brothers laid the foundation for aviation when they made history by being the first to create a successful flying machine.
The trials and tribulations of flight have had their ups and downs over the course of history. From the many who failed to the few that conquered; the thought of flight has always astonished us all. The Wright brothers were the first to sustain flight and therefore are credited with the invention of the airplane. John Allen who wrote Aerodynamics: The Science of Air in Motion says, “The Wright Brothers were the supreme example of their time of men gifted with practical skill, theoretical knowledge and insight” (6). As we all know, the airplane has had thousands of designs since then, but for the most part the physics of flight has remained the same. As you can see, the failures that occurred while trying to fly only prove that flight is truly remarkable.
Howard Hughes was born December 24, 1905 in Houston Texas. As a child, Hughes had already started to show an interest in engineering. Its is said that when Hughes was a teenager, hs mother would not allow him to get a motorcycle, claiming they were unsafe. He soon motorized his bicycle using