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BOOKS ON AVIATION & HUMAN FLIGHT
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
b. 6-29-1900; Lyon, France
d. 7-31-1944; plane crash
Author Antoine de Saint-Exupery was one of the pioneers of international postal flight and many of his stories drew on his flight experiences. One of Saint-Exupery's most famous works is Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) an illustrated tale in which a stranded pilot meets the Little Prince, a young boy from a tiny astroid.
In 1935 Saint-Exupery was fortunate to survive a crash in the Libyan Desert.
• The Little Prince poster
FYI - Saint-Exupery gave the Little Prince's astroid the name B-612, so that adults would know it is real - B612 is the name of the organization working to avoid an astroid-Earth collison.
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Alberto Santos-Dumont
b. 7-20-1873; Palmira, Minas Gerais, Empire of Brazil
d. 7-23-1932; Sao Paulo
Alberto Santos-Dumont was the designer, builder and pilot of one of the first dirigibles, a ‘lighter-than-air aircraft’ that can be steered and propelled through the air using rudders and propellers or other thrust mechanisms”.
FYI ~ Santos-Dumont is considered responsible for popularizing the use of a wrist watch for men (his was designed and made by the jeweler Louis Cartier), because digging a pocket watch out while piloting a plane was inconvenient.
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Walter Schirra
b. 3-12-1923; Hackensack, New Jersey
d. 5-4-2007; Cape Kennedy, FL
Wally Schirra, one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, was also part of the Gemini and Apollo programs. Schirra was the first person to go into space three times, logging 295 hours and 15 minutes.
FYI - Schirra's parents were aviation pioneers - his father was a “barnstormer”, his mother a “wing-walker” on her husband's biplane.
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Blanche Stuart Scott
b. 4-8-1885; Rochester, NY
d. 7-27-1970; Rochester
Blanche Scott is possiblly the first American woman pilot - while taking lessons for Glenn Curtiss a gust of wind or the failure of the throttle, sent Scott's biplane airborne for a short distance - enough to qualify. The first intentional flight was by Bessica Medlar Raiche later in the same month.
She was also the first woman to drive an authomobile across country, from New York City to San Francisco.
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Russell “Rusty” Schweickart
b. 10-25-1935; Neptune, NJ
Rusty Schweickart flew as the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 9 with Jim McDivitt and Dave Scott in 1969, testing systems for landing on the Moon. Schweickart suffered from space sickness that ultimately limited his space flight.
Schweickart, who has taught at Esalen Institute, is also cofounder of the B612 Foundation, a group that aims to defend Earth from asteroid impacts.
FYI -B-612 is the name of the astroid in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's “The Little Prince”.
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Thomas Etholen Selfridge
b. 2-8-1882; San Francisco, CA
d. 9-17-1908; Fort Myer, VA - air crash
The first person to die in a crash of a powered airplane, US Army First Lieutenant Thomas Etholen Selfridge, was a passenger while Orville Wright was piloting the aircraft.
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Alan Shepard
b. 11-18-1923; Derry, New Hampshire
d. 7-21-1998; Pebble Beach, CA (leukemia)
Alan Shepard, the second person and first American in space flight, (suborbital, 5-5-1961, Mercury 3), also flew in the Apollo 14 mission (1971) and was the fifth person to walk on the Moon.
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