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BOOKS ON AVIATION & HUMAN FLIGHT
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Félix Nadar
b. 4-1-1820; Paris, France
d. 3-23-1910; Paris
Noted early photographer Felix Nadar was also enthusatic about “heavier-than-air machines”, taking the first ever aerial photographs in 1858.
FYI ~ Nader's aerial pictures of Paris are lost; the next surviving aerial photographs are from 1860 Boston by ballonist Samuel Archer King and photographer James Wallace Black.
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Major Andrian Nikolayev, Valentina Tereshkova
(first instance of two simultaneous manned spacecraft, Vostok 3 & 4)
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Charles Nungesser
b. 3-15-1892; Paris, France
d. 5-8-1927; Atlantic Ocean
World War I ace pilot Charles Nungesser, and Francois Coli, disappeared on their attempt to a make the first non-stop flight over the Atlantic, leaving Paris for New York in a plane called The White Bird. Two weeks later Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic solo.
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Ellen Ochoa
b. 5-10-1958; California
Ellen Ochoa, an electrical engineer, was an astronaut and is currently the Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center. Ochoa is the first Hispanic woman in space (Discovery in 1993) and has made four flights, logging nearly 1000 hours.
• Women in Science posters
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Edward O'Hare
b. 3-13-1914; St. Louis, MO
d. 11-26-1943; near the Gilbert Islands
Edward O'Hare, the US Navy's first flying ace and Medal of Honor awardee in WWII was shot down in the Pacific. He is the namesake of Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
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Ellison Onizuka
b. 6-24-1946; Kealakekua, HI
d. 1-28-1986, Challenger Space Shuttle
Poster Text: Ellison Onizuka's fascination with rocket began at a very early age. His parents recall how one New Year's Eve they felt strange vibrations and heard loud noises that seemed to be coming from beneath the floor of their home. Frightened, they ran outside to discover clouds of smoke pouring from underneath the house. After a few panic-stricken minutes, they discoverd the source of the noise and smoke, young Ellison had set off a roman candle firework in order to see how it worked! ... While working as a test pilot in California in the 1970s Ellison was chosen by NASA to be one of 220 astronauts for the space agency's new shuttle. The next year, he was chosen as one of seven people to take part in a mission aboard the shuttle “Challenger.”
Tragically, a malfunction of the shuttle's booster rocket caused an explosion that claimed the lives of the entire “Challenger” crew. At a memorial service, former astronaut Neil Armstrong said of Ellison Onizuka, “[He] had his life cut short for many reasons he could not control. Yet during his years he accomplished much more than most. Our world is a better place for his being here. He will always be remembered.”
• Great Asian American posters
Challenger Crew: Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik.
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Louis Paulhan
b. 7-19-1883; Pézenas, Hérault, France
d. 2-10-1963; France
Louis Paulhan, who flew the first seaplane, “Le Canard” (the duck), in 1910, also toured America
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Adolphe Pegoud
b. 6-13-1889; Montferrat, Isère, France
d. 8-31-1915; Petit-Croix, France
French flying ace Adolphe Pegoud, a test pilot for Louis Bleriot, was the first pilot to make a parachute jump from a plane, and was publicized as flying the first loop.
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Auguste Piccard
b. 1-28-1884; Basel, Switzerland
d. 3-24-1962; Lausanne
Auguste Piccard and his twin brother Jean-Felix were scientists involved in chemistry, engineering, exploring, and teaching. August set aviation altitude records with his pressurized gondola.
FYI ~ Gene Roddenberry named the captain of Star Trek's Enterprise Jean-Luc Picard on one or both of the Piccard brothers, though in the series Jean-Luc denies being a descendent of Jean-Felix.
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Wiley Post
b. 11-22-1898; Grand Saline, TX
d. 8-15-1935; Point Barrow, Alaska
Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, is best remembered as being killed with humorist Will Rogers, during takeoff.
Post is also known for his work in high altitude flying.
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Harriet Quimby
b. 5-11-1875; Arcadia, Michigan
d. 7-1-1912; Squantum, Massachusetts (air crash)
Movie screenwriter Harriet Quimby, the first woman to receive a pilot's licence in the US and to fly across the English Channel, learned to fly from John Moisant.
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