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INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Abbot, Charles Greeley, 493–96, 519–20
abolitionism, 25, 26, 29, 30, 40, 41, 67, 79, 89
Académie des Sports, 383
Academy of Sciences, 320
Adair, Iowa, 52, 71
Adams, John Quincy, 29–30
Ader, Clément, 215, 232, 242, 260, 310, 321, 441–42, 446
Adkins, Will, 98–99
Adventure Galley,192
Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), 349–53, 360, 362–64, 372, 379, 399–401, 404
“Aerial Navigation” (Chanute), 202
Aerial Navigation (Zahm), 422
Aéro-Club de France, 249–52, 275, 277, 312, 315, 318, 344, 416
Aviation Committee of, 308–9
prizes established by, 250–51, 252, 317, 321–22, 325, 380–81, 383, 460
Subcommittee on Aviation Experiments of, 252
Technical Committee on Aerial Locomotion of, 252
Aéro-Club de la Sarthe, 365, 381, 390
Aero Club of America, 312–13, 314, 331, 347, 362, 401, 403
awards given by, 383, 390, 391, 425
competitions supervised by, 363–64, 459
exhibitions of, 312, 328–29, 351
Wrights’ agreement with, 418
Wrights honored by, 383, 390, 391, 392
Aerodrome No. 5, 139, 141–42
Aerodrome No. 6, 139, 141, 141
Aerodromes, 153, 160–62, 166, 168–70, 210, 226, 256–58, 261–63, 263, 293, 296, 312, 350
reconstruction of, 485–87, 489, 492–95, 520
aerodynamics:
airflow and, 169, 176–80
equations in, 174, 177, 178–79, 220
laboratory research in, 142–43, 149, 152, 167
laws of, 140, 165, 175
problems of, 166–70, 171–73, 197–98
Aeronautical Annual, 115, 162, 165, 178, 347
Aeronautical Journal, 202, 317
Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, 202, 232, 247, 383
aeronautics, 149, 150
dangers of, 90, 163, 187, 188, 190, 210, 212, 235, 257–58, 262–63, 283, 296–97, 311–12, 323
degree programs established in, 474
general interest in, 136–38, 143, 145, 156, 161–62, 164, 429–30
international conference on, 150–52, 205, 296, 422
literature of, 115, 140, 142–43, 152, 159, 160, 162, 165, 171, 177, 181, 202–3, 219–20, 218–19, 230, 232, 250, 251, 253–54, 296
military uses of, 289–90, 294, 306, 307, 310, 320, 351, 435–36
Orville on, 429
practical vs. theoretical understanding of, 174–75, 2I9
team approach to, 205
Wilbur on, 161, 165, 166, 167, 169–70, 171, 172, 184, 188, 207, 212, 213, 273–74, 316, 429
Aeronautics, 362, 419
Aeronautic Society of New York, 399, 401–3
Aérophile, L’, 255, 306, 307, 317, 318–19, 320, 362, 368
ailerons, 319, 324, 353, 360, 383–84, 401–2, 462, 484
aircraft industry, U.S., 510–11
research and development in, 473–74
safety competitions in, 474
wartime leadership of, 473
Aircraft Production Board, 469, 471
airfoil design, 178, 179, 197, 222–28, 223, 224, 227, 421–22
Air Force, U.S., 436, 511, 528
airplanes:
canard design, 179–80, 319
circumnavigation of globe by, 511
first fatality in crash of, 376–77, 376
first powered flight of, see Wright Flyer (1903)
first practical extended demonstration of, 299–300
first public flight of, 317, 324–26
invention of, 77, 156, 162, 175, 412, 422, 433, 453, 460, 501
jet, 525
maneuverability of, 167–70, 344, 368
race for development of, 251–52, 256–58, 261–63, 316–26, 345, 463
scouting, 306, 310
stability and control of, 166, 167–70, 172, 180, 200–201, 209–11, 235–36, 344, 443
three-axis control of, 15, 167–70, 322, 383, 422
training, 464, 470, 510
transcontinental flights of, 438–39
unsuccessful tests of, 256–58, 260, 261–63, 263
wartime government contracts for, 469–70
air pressure, 176, 177, 219–21, 242
Air Service Engineering Division, 511
airships, 248, 289, 290, 313–14, 325, 336, 339, 342, 351
first navigable, 231
semirigid, 250–51
see also balloons; dirigibles
airshows, U.S., 424–25, 428–33, 434–35, 437
Akeley, Carl, 502
Albatross, 154, 155
Alexander, Patrick Y., 247–48, 255, 259, 276, 291, 306–7, 308, 311, 327, 328
Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, 386, 387
Alger, Fred, 409, 411
Alger, Russell, 391, 409, 410, 411
Allen, James, 341, 346, 347, 392, 393
America, 457
American Aerodrome Company, 400
American Aeronaut, 396
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 140, 149, 150, 152, 276
American Boy, 517
American Chicle, 328
American Engineer and Railroad Journal, 152
American Inventor, 498
American Magazine of Aeronautics, 347
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 149, 150
American Woolen Company, 328
American Wright Company, 418, 471
aeronautical research at, 443
board of directors of, 410, 411, 460, 461, 463, 465
corporate headquarters of, 411
criticism of, 463, 464
factory of, 411, 412, 424, 435, 436, 438, 455–56, 465, 469
financial losses of, 466
founding of, 410
monopolistic opportunity lost to, 461–63
Orville as president of, 451, 455–56, 460–61, 463–68
Orville’s stock takeover of, 465, 468
profits of, 429
reorganization of, 466–67
royalty payments to, 434, 441, 461
sale of, 465–66, 468, 484, 489
technological edge lost by, 432–33, 446–47, 457, 458, 460
types of aircraft built at, 435
Amery, L. S., 289–90
Ames, James, 492
Andrews, Alfred “Peek,” 514–15
anemometers, 190, 207, 267
“Angle of Incidence” (Wright), 202
angle-of-incidence indicator, 459
Animal Locomotion, or Walking, Swimming and Flying, with a Dissertation on Aeronautics (Pettigrew), 160
Animal Mechanism (Marey), 159
Antoinette, 325, 342, 416, 431
Archdeacon, Ernest, 252, 275, 307, 308, 317, 320, 321, 322, 326, 336, 342, 344, 366
Wrights recalled by, 345, 368
Archdeacon Cup, 317, 321–22, 325, 344
Archdeacon glider (1904), 319–21
Archdeacon glider (1905), 322–23
Ark, 139–40, 141
Armée de l’Air, 505
Army, U.S., 388, 390, 391, 458
Quartermaster Corps of, 506
> Signal Corps of, 341, 347, 372, 379
Signal Officers Reserve Corps of, 469–70
Wright Flyer demonstrations for, 372–78, 376, 395–99, 397, 408, 445, 451, 456
Wright Flyers sold to, 424, 446, 457, 463–64
Army Air Corps, U.S., 446
Army Air Forces, U.S., 436, 526
Army Board of Ordnance and Fortification, U.S., 161, 257, 292–94, 304–5, 331–32, 341–42, 346–48
heavier-than-air competition sponsored by, 347–48
Arnold, Henry H. “Hap,” 436, 437, 473, 510, 526
Arnot, Matthias, 233–34
Associated Press, 270, 271, 272, 274, 276, 443
Atlantic & Pacific Aerial Navigation Co., 138
Atlantic Monthly, 106
Atwood, Harry, 437–38
Auto, L’, 308
automatic stabilizing systems, 443–45, 459–60
Automobile Club of America, 312
aeronautical exhibition of, 312–13
automobiles, 106, 114, 115, 136, 322
electric, 328
internal combustion engines of, 166, 462
patents on, 461–62
Avery, Charles, 138
Avery, William, 153, 154, 156, 235, 236, 290–91
aviateurs militantes, les, 252
Aviation, 492
Avion 111, 259–60, 310, 321, 441
Baby Grand, 432, 432, 434
Baden-Powell, Baden Fletcher Smyth, 247, 248, 259, 291, 381–82
Bailey, Doctor, 379
Bairstow, Leonard, 491
Baldwin, Frederick Walker “Casey,” 351–53, 379–80
Baldwin, Tom, 290, 303, 313–14, 327, 361, 373, 374, 425, 445
Balfour, Arthur, Lord, 387
Ball, Joseph A., 28
ballast, 286, 322
balloons, 124, 144, 163, 248, 249, 250–51, 280
free, 289
launching from, 296
parachuting from, 425
races of, 336
reconnaissance, 289
sport, 250, 308, 336, 364
tethered, 290, 381, 397–98
Wilbur on, 336
Balzer, Stephen M., 257
Bariquand et Marre, 349, 361, 364, 365, 383
Barkeley, Alben W., 528
Barnaby, Horace T., 82, 217
Barnes, Alpheus, 460–61, 465
Barnum & Bailey Circus, 341
barometers, 398
Bartholdi, 262
Bates, J. C, 304
batteries, 244, 267
Baum, Jesse, 259
Beach, Stanley Yale, 498, 499
Beachey, Lincoln, 425, 426, 485
Beard, Dave, 279, 284, 285, 299, 308
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