Air Transportation Test #1

"Clean wing design"

French Caravelle 1955

1st Jet Pax a/c

Boeing 707 181 pax 550 mph 1958

Great Britain made these two A/C out of 9 options

Turboprop and Jet Engine

Air Mail Act of 1934

Divorced a/c manufacturers from airline operators

William Lear

Learjet 23 Business Jet 1964

Standard a/c

Dc-3 1935

Precursor to Boeing 707

Boeing 367-80

Military Pax jet turned Civilian

KC-135

Inventions for commercial a/c

Radar, Radio comms, instrument flying, weather forecasting, satellites

1st a/c around world

Douglasworld cruiser 1924

1st pax jet mach 1

Tu-144 1969 Soviet Union

Fighters defeated Germany

Yakovelv and Mikoyan-Gurevich (Mig)

Boeing

William Boeing 1915

1st flight sim

Edwin link

1st production helicopter

Vought Sikorsky r-4 Igor Sikorsky

Airbus

1960 France, Germany, UK, (Belgium and Italy)

Aerospace Industry

Missiles, Gliders, Airships, airplane, military a/c, balloons, spacecraft, avionics

1st practical helicopter

German Focke-Wulf FW61 1936

1st Igor Sikorsky a/c

VS-300 1939

!st commercial jet a/c

DC-8

Women in factories

Rosie the Riveter WWII 1943-45

Concorde

Britain and France 1962

1st wide body jet

Boeing 1969

1st a/c that made the airlines money (Changed the world)

DC-3

Dc-1 better than DC-2

powerful engine and 2 more pax

Civil Aeronautics Act 1938

CAA (regulate airlines)

!st pressurized a/c (fly above 10,000 ft)

Boeing Stratoliner

WWII inventions

Jet Engines and radar (transponder)

Federal Aviation Act 1958

Establish FAA

7 Tech advancements

Drones, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality, Lean Principles, Prescriptive Maintenance, Internet, Additive Manufacturing

IBM

Computer Research System

1930’s

Integrated radio, air-cooled engine, Rate of climb indicator, artificial horizon indicator, airspeed indicator

1st radio beacon

1932 congress 83

1st ATC tower

1935 Newark

IBM + American 90 mins to a few seconds

SABRE

1st Jet engine

Germany Meschesrmidt

Idealized Jet Engine

England Frank Widdle

1st flight

Wright Bros 1903 Wright Flyer 200ft Kittyhawk

1st water plane

Kurtis 1914

1st water commercial flight

Benoist XIV Thomas Benoist 18mi 2hr to 23 min Tampa 1914

1917

Congress appropriated 100k for airmail

1918

mail routes established

!st commercial jet airliner

De Havilland Comet Great Britain 1952

1st commercial flight

1959 DC-8

1st solo across atlantic

1927 Charles Limberg Spirit of St. Louis

Amelia Earhart

The 99’s

2011

Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Tri-motor a/c

1926 Henry Ford 13 pax 135 mph Tin George Lansing

1st Modern Pax Airliner

B247 1933 16 pax 155 mph