HOF #8

HOF #8
Wright Brother's famous first (powered) flight - Dec 17th, 1903
- Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina
- Named Wright airplane?
- 120, 175, 200, and 852 feet flights
- 12 seconds (for 120ft one)
- They used a combustion engine (with the help of Charles Taylor)

Wright Brother's truly historical "first" - Sept 20th, 1904
- They did a complete 360 while flying
- Huffman Prairie, Near Dayton, Ohio
- lasted 1 minute 36 seconds and covered 4080 ft

First aviator to cross the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft
- Louis Bleriot
- In 1909

List of planes built by the AEA & their Designers
- AEA Glider = Octave Chanute
- Red Wing = Baldwin
- June Bug = Curtiss
- Loon = June Bug Modified
- Silver Dart = McCurdy
- Cygnet II & Cygnet III = Bell