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HERITAGE

&Heroes

A Brief History of Flight T-1 Jayhawk

Orville and Wilbur Wright fly
first successful self-propelled The U.S. Army Signal Corps
airplane in Kitty Hawk, N.C. established the Aeronautical
The flight lasted 12 seconds Division to manage all matters
and covered 120 feet. pertaining to military ballooning,
air machines and all kindred
subjects.

Charles Lindbergh flies the
“Spirit of St. Louis” in the first Amelia Earhart became the
solo nonstop transatlanic flight first woman to fly solo across
from Long Island to Paris. The the Atlantic Ocean. She flew
flight takes 33 hours and 30 from Newfoundland to Ireland.
minutes to complete.

John Glenn became the
first American to orbit
the Earth.

1996
The F-117A, the first operational
stealth aircraft, made its first
flight. The plane’s design helps
scatter radar signals to avoid
detection.

SpaceShipOne is the first privately developed aircraft to The X-51A Waverider was successfully launched from
reach space. SpaceShipOne launched from its mothership, a B-52 over the Pacific Ocean. After separating from
White Knight, to help it ascend to just beyond the the B-52, the Waverider failed to maintain control due
atmosphere. The flight lasted 24 minutes, with just three to a faulty control fin. During a test flight in 2010 the
weightless minutes. SpaceShipOne was developed by Waverider flew more than three minutes at Mach 4.88
Mojave Aerospace Ventures. (almost five times the speed of sound).

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A Special Thank You to the Family of Amelia Earhart & CMG Worldwide.