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Recent Progress In Aviation OCTAVE CHANUTE

Recent Progress In Aviation

OCTAVE CHANUTE

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Publication: Government Printing Office, 1911, Washington

Reprinted from the Smithsonian Report for 1910, pp. [2], 145-167, [3]; 19 plates with 31 photos and 2 engravings of planes and flights; original gray printed paper wrappers; water stained at the bottom and fore-margins throughout, and except for 2 instances, not touching on text or illustrations; the text clean and sound otherwise. Chanute was an aviation visionary and one of the foremost pioneers of the field. He corresponded with men all over the world interested in flight. He gathered all the information could find, looking into records of experiments going back 300 years. In 1891, he wrote a series of articles, which were republished in the book, Progress in Flying Machines. Progress in Flying Machines made Octave Chanute the world’s first aviation historian. He published some of the earliest successful experiments on gliding in the United States, which subsequently provided the foundation for the success of the Wright brothers, with whom he regularly corresponded. This talk is "a remarkable review of power-driven flight experiments from 1904 to the great Rheims Meet of 1909." Chanute passed away shortly after and this offprint was produced posthumously.

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