Igor I. Sikorsky's Invention of the Helicoptor and it's Benficial Effects

When he was young, his most successful design was actually a large 4 engine plane that the military converted to use as a bomber during WWI, and it flew hundreds of successful combat missions. One of Igor’s helicopters, the R-4, was flown by American military forces during WWII and used for the first successful helicopter rescue to save pilots that had crashed behind enemy lines in Burma. In WWII, pilots flew helicopters on missions to gather military information and to rescue soldiers. The main buyers of helicopters today are the military and civilian rescue teams. During his lifetime, he received many medals and awards for aviation, including the U.S. Presidential Certificate of Merit, the Guggenheim Medal and Certificate, and the National Defense Award.

The Structure of an Airplane The idea of flight has fascinated people for centuries, even to this day, which is why I decided to research on airplanes. When I researched the history on planes, I was surprised at the effort and the time people long ago spent trying to make a machine that flies. I also wondered, like many, how an airplane is able to fly and sustain in the air. Wanting to know the answers to these types of questions I had, gave me the determination to really researched this topic. History of Planes Early History The idea of flying existed from a long time ago.

During his time at the university he paid more attention to the growing field of avaion than he did to his studies. In 1924 Charles Lindbergh enlisted in the United States Army so he could begin studying on how to be a fighter pilot. One year later he graduated from the Army flight training school that was held on both Brook’s field and Kelly’s field. He graduated as the number one pilot in his class. After that he bought his own airplane and for the next six years of his life he spent flying an airplane for Robertson Aircraft Corporation.

Charles Lindbergh Shortly after Charles Lindbergh landed, he was swarmed by 25,000 Parisians who carried the wearied pilot on their shoulders. They were rejoicing that Charles Lindbergh, the American aviator who flew the first transatlantic flight, had just landed at Le Bourget field in France. Having just completed what some people called an impossible feat, he was instantly a well-known international hero. Despite his pro-German stance during World War II, Charles Lindbergh is also an American hero. A record of his happiness and success exists in the material form of his plane hanging in the Smithsonian Institute; however, much of Lindbergh's life was clouded by turmoil.

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.

After he did the folding machine, the Wright family moved back to Dayton, Ohio in 1884. When the Wright brothers got settled in with their new life in Dayton, Ohio, things went very well for them. Wilbur a complete stud and was going to get a ... ... middle of paper ... ...e called the elevator in which controlled all of the vertical angles of the nose; and finally they added the key piece which was a moveable rudder, which had to connect to the wing warping mechanism to stop the airplane from going out of control and to control the planes forward movement. As Orville and Wilbur tested the third glider in North Carolina, the airplane flew around 622 feet in an incredible time of twenty six seconds. When there gliders were a complete success, it made it the world’s controllable air craft.

Soon after building their first successful aircraft, the brothers signed a contract with the United States military to build airplanes for the army. The Wright Brothers are important to American history because of their invention of the airplane, which in turn revolutionized the conduct of war. History has known them as “The Wright Brothers,” but Wilbur and Orville were actually two of five children born to the Wright family from Dayton, Ohio. Wilbur was born on April 16, 1867 in Millville, Indiana and Orville was born on August 19, 1871 in Dayton, Ohio. In 1881 the Wright family moved to Richmond, Indiana but later returned to Ohio in 1887.

Navy first all-metal monoplane fighter Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress-first American four-engine heavy bomber, first flew in 1937( Ramold). Charles Lindbergh liked to go on many solo flights. He entertained many people by the tricks he would pull off in the air. He also made an engine for a plane to make it possible to cross the Atlantic Ocean. He broke a record that has never been broken before.

Once graduated, he spent the next few years performing daredevil stunts at county fairs and carnivals as a barnstormer (Charles Lindbergh biography, ONL). In 1924, on advice from his father, Lindbergh enlisted in the United States Army to be trained as an Army Service Reserve pilot. A year later, he graduated first in his class and was hired by the Robertson Aircraft Corporation of St. Louis as an airmail pilot. Gaining a reputation for being a cautious and capable pilot, he flew the mail between St. Louis and Chicago (Lindbergh Biography, ONL). During the course of his job, Lindbergh heard of the famed Orteig Prize.

At the age of six he started taking an interest in airplanes after he was able to ride in an airplane for the first time. At only the age of fourteen he started taking flying lessons. (notablebiographies.com) On his sixteenth birthday he was able to earn his pilots license. Even though he was only 16 he built his very own wind tunnel. A wind tunnel is a tunnel where air is forced at speeds that are controlled to observe the effect of the winds flow.