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Juan Terry Trippe
Juan Terry Trippe , 1899-1981, pioneering American aviation executive, b. Sea Bright, N.J. A U.S. Navy pilot (1917-18), he graduated (1921) from Yale, and worked briefly on Wall Street. Fascinated with aviation, Trippe founded (1922) a short-lived air taxi service. Two years later he and three frien... Read more
avionics
avionics , electronic instruments used in air or space flight; also the design and production of such instruments. Early planes had few instruments, but as aviation and aircraft became more complex, so did instrumentation. Most of the new technology was electronic; hence, the expression "aviation ... Read more
Dax
Dax , town (1990 pop. 20,119), Landes dept., SW France, in Gascony, on the Adour River. It has long been famous for its hot mineral springs. An aviation school is in the town. ... Read more
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Richard Evelyn Byrd 1888-1957, American aviator and polar explorer, b. Winchester, Va. He took up aviation in 1917, and after World War I he gained great fame in the air. He commanded the naval air unit with the arctic expedition of D. B. MacMillan in 1925. He and Floyd Bennett reported their his... Read more
Italo Balbo
Italo Balbo , 1896-1940, Italian Fascist leader and aviator. After serving in World War I, he joined the Fascist movement and in 1922 was one of the four top leaders of the March on Rome, which brought Mussolini to power. A general of the Fascist militia, he held several cabinet posts and was (1929-... Read more
Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control centers. It investigates air acc... Read more
aviation
aviation operation of heavier-than-air aircraft and related activities. Aviation can be conveniently divided into military aviation, air transport, and general aviation. Military aviation includes all aviation activity by the armed services, such as combat, reconnaissance, and military air transpor... Read more
James Harold Doolittle
James Harold Doolittle 1896-1993, American aviator, b. Alameda, Calif. After serving in World War I as a flier he returned to school and earned a Sc.D. from MIT. He then became noted for his speed flying (world record, 1932) and also engaged in commercial aviation as the head of Shell Oil's aviatio... Read more
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke (Sir Arthur Charles Clarke), 1917-2008, British science fiction writer. During World War II he served as a radar instructor and aviator in the Royal Air Force. After the war he obtained a degree in physics and mathematics from King's College, London (1948) and in 1956 he settled pe... Read more
Otto Lilienthal
Otto Lilienthal , 1848-96, German aeronautical engineer, a pioneer in his experiments with gliders . He made major developments in the glider based on his observations of birds and wrote a number of books on aviation. His brother, Gustav Lilienthal, 1849-1933, was associated with Otto in his flyi... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "1917 in aviation"

Clarke, Arthur C. (1917-)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Clarke, Arthur C. (1917-) Famous British science fiction author...phenomena. He was born December 16, 1917, in Minehead, Somersetshire, England...satellites, the Robert Ball Award from the Aviation-Space Writers Association in 1965 for...
Air Warfare
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...explore the military applications of aviation and had effectively no air arm...to war with remarkably efficient aviation establishments, and even Austria...America entered the war in April 1917, aviation was crucial to victory, particularly...
World War I, U.S. Air Operations in
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...Operations in. The U.S. declaration of war on April 6, 1917, found American aviation in an embryonic and woefully unprepared state. The...first army flight candidate landed in France in June 1917, while those arriving in Italy in the fall included...
Langley Air Force Base
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Force Base U.S. military installation, 3,195 acres (1,293 hectares), SE Va., N of Hampton; est. 1917 and named for aviation pioneer Samuel P. Langley . The facility, the oldest continuously active air force base in the United States...
Aviation Industry
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Aviation Industry The aviation industry is defined as the...air, which is the earliest aviation experiment. The Americans...converted to civilian use. By 1917 the U.S. government adopted...Atlantic Ocean. This event made aviation an established industry by...
Aviation
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...helicopters, which were known in aviation's earlier days as autogyros. A major breakthrough in world aviation occurred in 1913, with the...aircraft technical schools and aviation clubs blossomed. In the war...power of the Communists in late 1917, Lenin and Stalin, who stressed...
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Richard Evelyn Byrd 1888-1957, American aviator and polar explorer, b. Winchester, Va. He took up aviation in 1917, and after World War I he gained great fame in the air. He commanded the naval air unit with the arctic expedition...
Aviation Intelligence, History
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...study. These two aspects of aviation intelligence are known as aerial...high above Earth's surface, aviation intelligence has involved a...1, the Italians again made aviation history when they conducted...Dayton, Ohio. There, in July 1917, they studied their first...
Air National Guard
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...first viable National Guard aviation unit—the First...All‐Guard aviation units were disbanded by the War Department in 1917. Instead, Guardsmen played...important leadership and combat aviation roles as individual volunteers...
Fort Worth: History
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States ...Fort Worth's stores. Oil/Aviation Spur Economy In 1917, oil was discovered in West...1927, an airport opened and the aviation industry began. During World...1974 ushered in a new era of aviation history. At the time it was...

Dictionary entries related to "1917 in aviation"

San Antonio
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...facilities in the city, notably with the founding of Kelly Field (later Kelly Air Force Base) in 1917. The growth of the military, especially aviation, was even more pronounced after 1941. Despite the closing of Kelly in 2001, more than 40...
Zeppelin
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...long and cylindrical in shape and with a rigid framework, named for its inventor, the German aviation pioneer Ferdinand Zeppelin (1838–1917). Zeppelins were used during the First World War for reconnaissance and bombing, and after...
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...numerous Department of Defense organizations, Wright-Patterson AFB is a major center for aviation research and development. First established in 1917 as McCook Field, it was joined by Wilbur Wright Field in 1924, located on land donated by...
Cooper, Merian C.
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...1911–15; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, graduated 1917. Military Service: Served in the United States infantry, 1916, then in Aviation Corps: captain; 1918–20—served with the Kosciusko Flying...
Aircraft Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...substantial loads. World War I Aviation remained little more than a...about the European lead in aviation prompted Congress to establish...NACA) in 1915 to support aviation research and development...United States entered the war in 1917, few manufacturers were active...
Maksutov, Dmitry Dmitrievich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...I in the Caucasus, and in 1916 transferred to the military aviation school in Tiflis. Having sustained a concussion in an accident he was demobilized and returned to Odessa. In 1917, he decided to go to the United States, hoping to meet the...
de Rochemont, Louis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Naval Aviation School; Harvard Naval Cadet School. Military Service: British...Intelligence, 1916–17; officer in U.S. Navy, 1917–23. Family: Married Virginia Shaler, 1929, son...
World War I, Navy in
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of the Russian army after the 1917 revolution, could be employed...Nazaire, France, on 24 June 1917. Over 300,000 American troops...in World War I included using aviation, chiefly along the west coast...K. The Queenstown Patrol, 1917: The Diary of Commander Joseph...
de Mille, Cecil B.
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...The Squaw Man, 1914; founder, Mercury Aviation Co., 1919; established De Mille Pictures...Rosa (+ ed); The Dream Girl (+ ed) 1917 Joan the Woman (+ ed); A Romance of...1916 The Love Mask (Reicher) (co-sc) 1917 Betty to the Rescue (Reicher) (co...
Friedmann, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Friedmann volunteered for service in an aviation detachment, in which he worked, first...an aircraft observer. In the summer of 1917 he was appointed a section chief in Russia...manufacture of measuring instruments used in aviation; he later became director of the factory...

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Winged warriors: a tribute to military aviators.(aviation casualties in US Armed Forces since 1917)
Magazine article from: VFW Magazine; 11/1/2003; 700+ words ; ...result of enemy action since 1917. But in intent these two pages...only to pay respect to past aviation achievements, but for those...NAVY MARINES ARMY World War I 1917-18 237 50 (1) 3 See A...the Navy. In WWI, the Army aviation arm was called the Air Service...
Farmans and SIAs: U.S. Army Aviation Training and Combat in Italy with Fiorello La Guardia, 1917-1918.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Air Power History; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...and SIAs: U.S. Army Aviation Training and Combat in...Fiorello La Guardia, 1917-1918. By Jack B...The first detachment of aviation cadets to be trained...New York on August 13, 1917. All forty-six had...training at one of the aviation ground schools established...
HAROLD R. HARRIS CAREER IN AVIATION; AT 92
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/30/1988; ; 462 words ; ...FALMOUTH - Harold Ross Harris, an aviation pioneer who said he was the...career in military and civilian aviation when he enlisted in 1917 in the Army Signal Corps, which...Northwest Airlines and president of Aviation Financial Services. He retired...
THE EVOLUTION OF NAVAL AVIATION NEWS
Magazine article from: Naval Aviation News; 11/1/2007; ; 594 words ; 15 December 1917-First Weekly Bulletin...Chief of Naval Operations (Aviation). The two-page bulletin...expansion, and summaries of aviation activities. 1 October 1919...Weekly Bulletin becomes Daily Aviation Bulletin, however, the...
The risk takes: aviation pioneers helped mold a fledging air force.
Magazine article from: Airman; 2/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...and Wilbur Wright, had in mind for aviation when they flew the first heavier...practically impossible," Orville said in 1917. He was wrong, of course. Because...were way ahead in the development of aviation. American aviation was not up to...
1903-2003 CENTURY OF FLIGHT GREAT MOMENTS IN AVIATION; ONE DAY TO CROSS THE CONTINENT
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 9/1/2003; ; 513 words ; ...come - not only in U.S. aviation but in the career of one...true rennaissance man of aviation." Born in 1896, Doolittle enlisted in the Army in 1917 to become a pilot. He...instruments and high-octane aviation gasoline, which improved...
DAYTON'S AVIATION HERITAGE FUELS VISION FOR FUTURE
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 12/17/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...bogged down American aviation here while it surged...America entered the war in 1917 with no airplanes designed...factory was closed in March 1917. Orville continued to...millions into military aviation - nearly $19 million...staggering $640 million in 1917 - local industrialists...
The U.S. Air Service in the Great War, 1917-1919
Magazine article from: Airpower Journal; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Service in the Great War, 1917-1919 by James J. Cooke...place and time when tactical aviation first appeared. There is a...describing the birth of tactical aviation; rather, he wanted to understand...assessment. That said, tactical aviation, defined simply as support...
Psychologist and Ergonomics Pioneer Alphonse Chapanis, 1917-2002.
News Wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service; 10/11/2002; 700+ words ; ...essential." Born in Connecticut on March 17, 1917, Chapanis went to graduate school at Yale and...Field in Ohio; and also serving for a time as an aviation physiologist at the School of Aviation Medicine in Texas. While in the military, he...
From sticks and string to the speed of sound; A new book on the history of Aldergrove tells a fascinating tale of war and peace, highs and lows from the moment in 1917 when a young pilot landed his biplane in a field near Lough Neagh. GEOFF HILL reads the story of Ulster's premier airport.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 4/16/2001; 700+ words ; ...was an early summer's day in 1917, and the curlews were luting...several visits in 1983, and aviation fans will probably still be...BE2c that early summer day in 1917, or whether it was the landing...Belfast International Airport: Aviation at Aldergrove since 1918, is...