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flight simulation, 436–37
flight training, 338, 373, 387–88, 402, 405, 510–11
by Curtiss, 428–29, 459, 488
by Wright Brothers, 383, 385, 386, 408, 426–28, 427, 429, 435–37, 438, 439
Flint, Charles Ranlett, 328–30, 331, 360, 406
Charles R. Flint & Co., 328–30, 334–35, 337–38, 342. 346, 359. 440. 451–52
Flips and Flops, 515–16
Floyd, Halleck, 79, 82, 217
Flugmaschine Wright Gesellschaft, 405, 433–34
flying boats, 249, 456, 457–58, 459–60
flying bombs, 470
flying circus, 434
flying machines:
bat-winged, 260, 441
bicycles and, 114–15, 169–70, 171, 243, 302, 353
design and construction of, 139, 140, 141, 143–44, 152–53, 154–55, 165, 166–70 early experiments with, 137–45, 153–56, 162
humorous skepticism about, 136–38, 159, 231, 429
model, 139–42, 143, 153, 168
multiwing, 153–54, 168, 239
predictions about, 114, 137, 138, 213
rubber driven, 140, 153, 155, 168–69
spiral winged, 138
steam-powered, 138, 139, 141–42, 166, 169, 258, 260
successful early flights of, 141–42, 144, 153–56
toy, 56–57, 159, 164, 362, 515
see also airplanes; gliders; specific aircraft
“Flying Machines and the War” (Kelly), 519
“Flying Man, The,” 159, 362
Fokker, “Bird of Paradise,” 511
Foraker, Joseph Benson “Fire Alarm Joe,” 99–100
Forbes, A. Holland, 391–92
Ford, Edsel, 509
Ford, Glenn, 497
Ford, Henry, 136, 461–62 restoration project of, 44, 507–10
Ford Hour, 509
Fordyce, Arnold, 309, 310, 327, 334, 335, 336–37, 339, 340, 381
Fordyce, Emma, 58
Fort Myer, Va., 124, 163, 361, 365, 371–80, 384, 390, 394, 427, 507
Army demonstration flights at, 372–78, 376, 395–99, 397, 408, 445, 456
Foster, Hubert, 295, 304–5, 306, 311
Foster, Stephen, 508
Foulois, Benjamin Delahauf, 372–73, 396, 397–99, 408, 446
Fournier, Jules, 310
14-bis, 317, 324–26
Fowler, Bob, 437, 439
France, 124, 146, 149, 312
aeronautical interest in, 249–52, 253, 274–75. 306–11, 317–26, 333, 342–45, 362, 403–4
aircraft subsidies in, 446–47
aviation claims of, 326, 345, 369, 404, 441, 463
Chamber of Deputies of, 335
Senate of, 383
Third Civil Tribunal of, 416
War Ministry of, 309–10, 311, 322, 333–35, 337–40, 446–47, 460
Wilbur in, 90, 118, 124, 127–28, 163, 312, 333, 364–70, 380–88, 416
Wright patents in, 312, 441
Wrights’ negotiations with, 306–11, 314, 333–35, 337–40, 344, 349, 354
Francis, John A., 46
Frankfurter Zeitung, 250
Franklin, Benjamin, 527
Franks, Oliver, 528
Freedman, Andrew, 410
Freemasonry, 25, 29–30, 35, 41–42, 51
Friedrich Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany, 382, 406
Front Porch Campaign, 135
Frost, Robert, 195
Frost King, 350
Fry, John Philip, 32
Fuller, Lawson M., 346
Fulton, Robert, 406
Funkhouser, Charles, 525
Furnas, Charlie, 354–55, 358–59, 371
Gallant Journey, 497
Garber, Paul E., 496, 528
Gardner, Henry, 148
Gardner, Lester, 492, 521
Garfield School, 58
Gary, Elbert, 409
Gasnier, René, 368
gasoline, 242, 244, 245, 249, 267, 332, 374
General Motors, 471
“Genesis of the First Successful Aeroplane, The,” 328–29
“Geographic Pivot of History, The” (Mackinder), 289
Germany, Imperial, 300, 307, 310, 312, 417
aeronautical accomplishments in, 138, 142–45
aeronautical program in, 339, 402, 405–6
Wrights’ negotiations with, 330, 339–41, 405–6
Wrights’ patent suits in, 451
Wrights’ production agreement in, 405, 433–34, 442
Geyer, Harvey, 523
Gibbon, Edward, 78
Gilbert, Jess, 35, 119
Gill, Howard, 428, 435
Gillispie, G. L., 292–93
Gilmore, William, 503
Gleanings in Bee Culture, 285
Gleichen, A. E. W., 311
Glennan, Keville, 271, 272
gliders, 56, 128, 275
automatic vs. pilot control of, 201, 444–45
body-shifting control of, 234
copies of, 275, 318, 319–20, 322, 323–24
experiments with, 143–45, 146, 153–56, 176, 179–80, 178–91, 196–99, 201, 233, 248–49, 296, 317–24
first American flight of, 152, 296, 445
first flight of, 176
first passenger flight of, 323
high-wing monoplane, 445
lateral-control system of, 251
launching of, 211, 296, 322
manned, 115, 138, 143–45, 152
ratio of flight to fall in, 143
records achieved by, 240–41, 444–45
sport, 171
tailless, 312
two-surface, 154, 155, 156, 160, 168, 214, 233, 275–76, 1 290
type de Wright, 317, 319–20, 322, 323–24
see also specific gliders
Godard family, 249
Golden Age, 36
Golden Flier, 399, 401–2, 404
Goodwin, Margaret, 120
Goop Tales, Alphabetically Told, The (Burgess), 127–28
Goujarde, Lieutenant, 118
Goujarde, Mme., 118
Gould, Jay, 149
Goupil, Alexandre, 489–90
Grahame-White, Claude, 414, 431, 432, 447
Grande Semaine d’Aviation de Champagne,
La, 403–4
“Grand Junction Railroad,” 265
Grand Prix d’Aviation, 322, 342, 344, 349, 362
Gray, Jim, 270, 271
Great Aerodrome, 169, 256, 257–58, 261–63,
263, 293, 296
Greenfield Village, 44, 507–10
Grey, C. G., 496
Gross, Hans, 339
ground crews, 263–64, 266–67, 266, 269–70,
299
Grumbach, Carrie Kayler, 14, 121–22, 270–71, 273, 476, 477, 478, 524
Grumbach, Charles, 121
Guggenheim, Daniel, 474
Guggenheim, Harry, 474
Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT), 474
Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, 473–74, 474
Guizot, François-Pierre-Guillaume, 78
gyroscopes, 459–60
Haldane, R. B., 333
Hale, John P., 26
Hamilton, Charles K., 296, 425–26
Hammer, William J., 313, 327
Hand, Learned, 413, 415
hangars, 203, 207–8, 260, 269, 354, 366, 371, 385, 407, 510
hang gliders, 143–45, 172, 234, 318
Hare, Jimmy, 357
Hargrave, Lawrence, 230, 231, 324, 342, 350
Harkness, Harry, 431
Harmon, Clifford Burke, 431
Harmon, Judson, 393
Harper’s, 519
Hartsville College, 31, 35, 42, 64, 89
Harwood, Van Ness, 443–44
Haskell, Henry J., 482–83
Havens, Beckwith “Becky,” 429
Hawley, Allan, 336, 363
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 78
Hawthorn Hill, 15, 448, 476–479, 478, 480–81, 482, 483, 489, 502–3, 524
Hawthorn Street house, 44–48, 45, 52, 65, 95, 97, 116, 125, 128, 214, 248, 328, 391, 452, 454, 476, 483
recreaton of, 44, 507–10
Hayward, Charles, 417
Hazel, John R., 404–5, 412–13, 414–15, 452
Hazelhurst, Leighton, 451, 458
Hearst, William Randolph, 98, 425, 437
Hearst Prize, 425, 437–38, 439
helicopters, 498
toy, 56–57, 159, 164, 362, 515
Henry, Stuart C., 523
Henry County, Ind., 63–66
Herring, Augustus Moore, 251, 302, 312–13, 348, 361, 363. 380, 400–401, 407, 419
Chanute and, 153–55, 155, 156, 160, 214, 233–36, 239–40, 260, 275–76, 343, 352, 498
Curtiss and, 400–401, 407, 419
death of, 415
Herring-Curtiss Company, 401–3
Wrights’ suit against, 402–3, 404–5, 407, 412–15
High School Times, 101
high-speed flight, 474
Hildebrandt, Alfred, 405
Hoosier, 37
Hoster, Bill, 356
Hott, J. W., 81
Hounshell, David, 106
Howell, Richard, 499
“How the Wright Brothers Began” (Kelly), 519
How We Invented the Airplane (Wright), 497
Hoxsey, Arch, 427, 430–31, 433, 434–35
Hudson, Henry, 406
Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 60, 406–7, 408, 409, 410, 424–25
Hudson Motor Car Company, 469
Huffaker, Edward Chalmers, 152, 162, 205, 206–7, 208, 210, 211, 2I3, 2I4, 235, 236, 251, 419
Huffman, Torrence, 299, 308, 504, 510
Huffman, W. P., 46
Huffman Prairie, 11, 19, 278–79, 280–86, 281, 298–99, 3I0, 361
flight training at, 426–28, 429, 435–37, 438, 439, 510–11
Wright memorial at, 504, 510, 511
Hughes, Charles Evans, 471
Hughes Commission, 471
Hugo, Victor, 335
Humbert, Charles, 335, 339
Humphreys, Frederick E., 408
Hunaudieres, Les, 364–65, 366–70, 383, 384, 385, 386, 397
hydroaeroplanes, 249, 456, 457–58, 459–60
hydrofoil tests, 350
I-bis, 324
Illinois, 36
Illustrierte Aeronautische Mitteilungen, 203, 306–7, 362
Independent, 281, 362
inertial navigation system, 460
Ingersoll, Robert, 78
Internal Revenue Service, 527
International Conference on Aerial Navigation, 150, 151–52, 205, 296, 422
Issy-les-Moulineaux, 322–23, 324, 342, 343–44, 364, 384
Italy, 312, 387–88
Jackson, Andrew, 23, 29
Jacobs, James H., 412, 471, 492
James, E. C, 96
Jameson, John, 481, 482
Jameson, Leontine Wright (niece), 89, 125,
126, 480–81
Jamestown, Va., 330, 458
Jefferson, Thomas, 504, 527
Jefferson College, 146
Jefferson School, 57
Jennings, Miss, 93, 94
Joe Blackburn, 262
Johnson, Walter, 489
Johnstone, Ralph, 11, 428, 430–31, 432–33, 434–35
Jones, Lottie, 509
J-1 trainer aircraft, 470
Journal, Le (Paris), 309, 334, 337
Journal of the Western Society of Engineers, 219, 230
June Bug, 362–63, 364, 400, 457
Jusserand, J. J., 310
Kansas City, Mo., 70, 72, 107, 148–49, 482–83
Kansas City Star, 482
Kapferer, Henry, 342–43
Karman, Theodore von, 474, 502
Katydid, 153–54, 155, 156, 168, 233
Kayler, Carrie, see Grumbach, Carrie Kayler
Kehler, Richard von, 339, 340, 405
Keiter, Millard F., 215–18, 302, 380, 484
Kelly, Fred C., 475, 497, 518–21
Kelly, Hugh, 458
Kephart, Bishop, 81–82
Kettering, Charles F., 468–69, 509
Kettering Bug, 470
Key, Francis Scott, 527
Keys, Clement M., 467
Kill Devil Hills, 191, 203, 207, 236–37, 265, 268, 280, 285, 354, 355, 356, 358, 505–7
Kill Devil Hills Lifesaving Station, 260, 263–64, 266–67, 226, 354–55, 358, 522
Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association, 505
Kindervater, W. H., 506
Kinnane, Adrian, 129
Kirby, John, 276
kites, 65, 154, 232, 443
Bell’s, 350–52, 399
box, 230, 322, 324, 350
delta-wing, 318
experimental, 173–74, 178–80, 203, 350–52, 423
man-lifting, 289, 350, 423
tetrahedral, 350, 351, 399
Kitty Hawk, N.C., 13, 14, 117, 121, 128, 162, 182–99, 229, 278
camp site at, 188–89, 189, 193, 199. 203, 207–8, 236–37, 239, 241, 256, 259, 265–66, 267, 354, 356, 358–59, 443, 523
history and character of, 191–96, 505
1900 flight trials at, 184–200
1901 flight trials at, 203, 205, 207–13
1902 flight trials at, 236–41, 247, 423
1903 flight trials at, 256, 258–61, 263–70, 289, 291
1908 flight trials at, 349, 354–59
1911 flight trials at, 443–45
Wright monument at, 505–7
Klinger, Peter, 107
Klose, Herr, 433–34
Knabenshue, A. Roy, 290, 303, 425, 475
Wright flying team supervised by, 426–28, 434
Koerner, Catherine Fry (grandmother), 32–33, 40, 63, 65
Koerner, John Gottlieb (grandfather), 32–33, 35, 40
Koesch, Ralph, 138
Krebs, Arthur, 230–31
Kress, Wilhelm, 249
Krockman, Arnold, 444
Kronprinzessin Cecile, 390, 402, 433
Kuhns, Ezra, 448–49, 450
La Chapelle, Duval, 427
Lahm, Frank, 307–9, 314–15, 327, 336, 341, 381, 509
Lahm, Frank, Jr., 336, 341, 346, 361, 372, 373, 374, 392, 397, 408, 409, 435
Lake, Simon, 328
Lake Erie, Battle of, 438
Lambert Island, 478–79, 482, 489, 513
Lamson, Charles H., 233, 234, 236, 239, 249, 423, 447
landing gear, retractable, 471
Landowski, Paul, 505
Landry, Robert, 528
Lane, Joseph, 37–38
Langley, Samuel Pierpont, 150, 152, 165–67, 205, 214, 215, 220, 239–40, 251, 310, 419
Aerodromes built by, 139–42, 141, 153, 160–62, 168–70, 210, 226, 256–58, 261–63, 263, 293. 296, 312, 350. 485–87, 489, 492–95, 520
aeronautical claims on behalf of, 485–95
death of, 485, 487
flights of, 145, 146
Langley Day celebration, 485–86
Langley Laboratory, 485, 486
Langley Medal, 485, 488
Langley Memorial Tablet, 485
Langley Research Center, 473
lateral control systems, 251, 317, 324, 353, 384, 401–2, 419–20, 442
launch mechanisms, 258, 265, 291, 325
catapult, 140, 141, 256, 262, 282–83, 285–86, 299, 381, 486
rail laid for, 255–56, 261, 264, 265, 266, 267–68, 281, 283–84, 299, 381, 528
weight and derrick, 261, 363
La Vaulx, comte de, 251–52, 336
Lavezarri, Monsieur, 318
Layton, Edwin, 175
Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company, 148
Leavenworth Daily Tribune, 148
Lebaudy, Paul, 250–51, 336
Lebaudy, Pierre, 250–51
Lechambre, Paul, 249
Le Conte, John, 137
Lefebvre, Euge
ne, 435
Legion of Honor, 309, 502
Le Mans, France, 312, 364, 369, 377, 381, 387–88, 488, 504–5
Letellier, Henri, 309, 334–35, 410
Levavaseur, Leon, 318, 324
Liberty, 496, 500
Liberty Party, 25, 26
Library of Congress, 500, 525–26
Life of Samuel Johnson (Boswell), 78
lift control, 176–77, 197, 205, 212, 214, 219–28
Ligue Nationale Aérienne, 383, 441, 446
Lilienthal, Gustav, 232
Lilienthal, Otto, 142–45, 146, 152, 153, 164, 166, 171, 174, 179, 197, 215, 232, 233, 446
fatal crash of, 145, 156, 159, 160, 172, 210, 231
lift and drag data of, 203, 210, 213, 214, 219–22, 226
published work of, 142–43, 162, 177, 178
Lincoln, Abraham, 40, 504, 508
Lindbergh, Charles, 474, 528
Atlantic flight of, 502
Langley controversy and, 493–95
Orville and, 493–95, 502–3, 516–17, 518
linotype machines, 135–36
Literary Digest, 490
Little, Brown and Company, 518
Little Egypt, 150, 151
“little jokers” tabs, 295
Loening, Grover, 412, 458, 460, 463, 471
Orville recalled by, 456–57, 461, 464
Loewe, Isidore, 330, 333, 339
Lokal-Anzieger (Berlin), 405
London School of Economics and Political Science, 289
Aeronautical, 400, 457
Lorenz, E. L., 452
Lorenz, Mrs. D. L., 60
Los Angeles Times, 499
last Flights of Gustave Whitehead, The (Randolph), 499, 500
Lougheed, Victor, 445, 497
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, see St. Louis Exposition Louvre, 386, 387
Lou Willis, 354
Love, Judge, 526
Love, Moss, 458
Lowell, James Russell, 19
Lucas-Girardville, Paul N., 382, 383, 386
Ludlow, Israel, 423
Lutheran Standard, 68–69
Lyncker, General von, 339–40
LZ 6, 406
McArdle, William, 431
McClure’s Magazine, 159
McCook Field, 511
McCurdy, John Alexander Douglas, 351–53, 379–80
McFarland, Marvin W., 525–26
McGee, W. J., 80, 106
McGowan, P. H., 357, 359
McGraw-Hill, 526
McGuffey, William Holmes, 508
“Machine That Really Flies, The,” 280
Mackinder, Halford, 289
McKinley, William, 99–100, 135, 139
McLeish, Archibald, 525
McMahon, John R., 48, 190, 475–76, 517–18
McSurley, Alexander, 500
magnetos, 244, 245, 259, 374
malaria, 448
Maloney, Daniel, 296–97, 445, 497
Manly, Charles Matthews, 257–58, 262–63, 312, 363–64, 419
Manning, Anna, 46–47
Manning, James, 45, 46–47
Manufacturers Aircraft Association, 466–67
Marey, Etienne Jules, 159