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Octave Chanute (born Feb. 18, 1832, Paris, France—died Nov. 23, 1910, Chicago, Ill., U.S.) was a leading American civil engineer and aeronautical pioneer. (Read Orville Wright’s 1929 biography of his brother, Wilbur.) Immigrating to the United States with his father in 1838, Chanute attended private schools in New York City.
The next machine, Chanute’s design of a soaring machine, was the Katydid , a multi-plane glider. It was re-rigged six times; each new experiment preceded by releasing bits of feather-down in front of the machine and watching the path of air currents sweeping past the wings. The most successful wing variation used five sets of wings in the ...
Octave Chanute - this Chicago engineer was the 'elder statesman' of aeronautical experiments in 1900. His glider experiments at Miller Beach in 1896 produced the most influential and significant glider of the pre-Wright era. These pages contain a comprehensive description of Octave Chanute's experiments along the south end of Lake Michigan ...
Octave Chanute was one of the great pioneers of early flight. In 1896, Chanute, Augustus Herring, and fellow flying enthusiasts went to wind-swept Miller Beach on Lake Michigan (near Gary, Indiana) to test three new glider designs. Their successful biplane glider was originally built as a tri-plane, but early flights revealed the bottom wing ...
Tom D. Crouch. Chanute glider of 1896, biplane hang glider designed and built by American aviation pioneers Octave Chanute, Augustus M. Herring, and William Avery in Chicago during the early summer of 1896. Along with the standard glider flown by Otto Lilienthal of Germany, the Chanute glider, designed by Chanute.
Aug 11, 2016 · 1896 Chanute Hang Glider Replica. Octave Chanute, a successful railroad design engineer, designed and built a hang glider in 1896. Octave used the glider in his efforts to learn how to control a flying machine. The pioneering efforts of Chanute and other inquisitive men built up a mass of information on the problems and solutions of human ...
Jun 22, 2016 · Young Octave Chanute was able to attend private schools in New York, and in 1848, at the relatively young age of 16 and already showing a talent for engineering, he began training as a civil engineer. He reportedly began working his first job in 1849, as a member of a surveying crew working with the Hudson River Railroad.
