This document provides brief biographies of several important figures in the history of aviation, including: - The Wright Brothers, who made the first successful powered flight in 1903. - Traian Vuia, the Romanian inventor who made the first self-propelled flight in 1906. - Glenn Curtiss, an American aviation pioneer and engine builder who had several early aviation records. - Aurel Vlaicu, a Romanian engineer and aviation pioneer who built and flew some of the earliest airplanes in Romania. - Other early aviation innovators like Alexander De Seversky, Glenn Martin, Elrey Jeppesen, Chuck Yeager, and Clément Ader. It also mentions

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2. • The Wright Brothers
• Traian Vuia
• Glenn Curtiss
• Aurel Vlaicu
• Alexander De Seversky
• Glenn Martin
• Erley Jeppesen
• Chuck Yeager
• Francesco-Lana-Terzi
• Clement Ader

3. The Wright Brothers
The brothers built a
movable track to help
launch the Flyer. This
downhill track would
help the aircraft gain
enough airspeed to fly.
After two attempts to fly
this machine, one of
which resulted in a
minor crash, Orville
Wright took the Flyer off
for a 12-second,
sustained flight on
December 17, 1903. This
was the first successful,
powered, piloted flight in

4. The Wright Brothers 1903

5. • Traian Vuia (born August 17,
1872, in Bujoru, Caras-Severin
County, Austria-Hungary - died
September 3, 1950, Bucharest,
Romania) was a Romanian
inventor, pioneer of global
aviation. On 18 March 1906 he
made the first self-propelled​​
flight (no catapults or other
supporting outdoor means) with
a heavier than air aircraft.

7. Glenn Curtiss
• Glenn Curtiss increased mechanical
strength of flights. Talented engine
builder, Curtiss had his first airplane flight
in 1908, when he was 30. Following year,
he won two awards for speed flight at
international air demonstration from
Reims, France, flying about 75 km / h. He
designed a plane to take off and land on
water and his biplanes were the first to
have made operations on the deck of a​​
warship. His company built the first
aircraft (NC-4) who crossed the Atlantic.

8. Glenn Curtiss 1908

9. Aurel Vlaicu• He graduated Calvin High School and
College, which in 1919 was named “Aurel
Vlaicu", taking the Baccalaureate in Sibiu
in 1902.
• He continued his engineering studies at
the University of Budapest and the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, in
Germany, obtaining his engineering degree
in 1907. After that he worked as an
engineer at Opel factories in Rüsselsheim.
In 1908 returns to Binţinţi where he builds
a plane which made a number of flights in​​
1909. In the fall of 1909 he moved to
Bucharest and started building his first
airplane, Vlaicu I, at the Army arsenal.
That plane flew without any modifications
(which is unique to early aviation in the
world) in June 1910. In 1911 he built a
second plane.

10. Aurel Vlaicu 1909

11. Alexander de
Seversky• Alexander de Seversky has lost a
leg fighting for Russia in 1915,
but returned to the air with a
wooden prosthesis and 13
German planes were shot down.
Moving to the U.S. in 1918, de
Seversky created specifically an
aiming device for the Army Air
Service. Seversky Aviation
Corporation built amphibious,won
the record speed and designed
fighters that led to robust
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt model
of the Second World War.

13. Glenn Martin
• Glenn Martin began building
aircrafts shortly after the Wright
brothers' first flight, keeping
himself busy after World War with
little improvement contracts and
projects. Leading engineers, as
Lawrence Bell, James McDonnell
and Donald Douglas worked for
him. in 1929, Martin built the first
factory designed to produce
metal planes.

14. GlennMartin1927

15. • Jeppesen Elrey saved the lives of
other drivers, publishing their field
notes taken by him as he flew in
the '30s, the pilot of the U.S. mail.
Signaling cues, recording rates
obstacles and explaining how to
locate and deal with airports,
'Maps Jeppe' gave vital
information for pilots flying at
night or in bad weather.

17. William Lear
• William Lear left school and
went to patent his 150
inventions in aviation. In 1959
he began work on a plane that
would give business the speed
and comfort of a jet liner on a
small scale. Since 1963, he has
sold over $ 500,000 a piece,
thus imposing a brand
synonymous with luxury and
privilege.

19. Chuck Yeager
• Chuck Yeager joined the Army Air Corps
and was trained as a mechanic. He has
earned a reputation as the most skilled
pilot in the Second World War, breaking 12
German planes. After the war he became a
test pilot, flying with each experimental
device developed by the Air Force. In 1947,
Yeager pushed a Bell XS-1 at a speed of
1.125km/h, Mach 1.06 and 12,800 m.
Nobody had flown so quickly. Twenty years
later, at the age of 40, Yeager executed
127 combat missions in the Vietnam War.
Once recruited in 1969, he became
brigadier general in the Air Force.

21. Franceso Lana-
Terzi • In the eighteenth century, Italian
Francesco Lana-Terzi imagined flying a
ship that would have to be able to levitate
by four metal balls with empty air. This
fantastic project published in 1670
remained unrealized. However, in the late
eighteenth century, the man managed to
climb into the sky with a balloon filled with
hot air. In the next century, there are built
the first gliders (with arched wings as the
birds) by Otto Lilienthal, who died in such
an attempt to conquer the air. But the
glider was the first step toward building a
machine heavier than air and to move
under its own power. It would be airplane.

22. Franceso Lana-Terzi sec
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23. • Clément Agnès Ader est un ingénieur
français, pionnier de l'aviation, né
le 2 avril 1841 à Muret et mort
le 3 mars 1925 à Toulouse. Il aurait été le
premier à faire décoller un engin motorisé
plus lourd que l'air en 1890. Ce vol,
antérieur à celui des frères Wright en 1903,
est controversé en raison de doutes sur sa
réalité et des caractéristiques de stabilité
et de contrôle de l'appareil, le rendant
quasiment incontrôlable dans l'air.

24. Clement Ader

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