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Around the age of sixty, Octave Chanute directed his focus towards the goal of flying and designed many different gliders. He declined to patent any of his designs, and he actively collaborated with other experimenters.
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Octave Chanute 1999 about (1832-1910) Early Pioneer; Glider Designer. Bio. Octave Chanute was possibly the first person to publicly promote the sport of gliding and soaring in the United States of America. In September 1896 a Chicago Tribune reporter quoted him as saying, "... With the high wind the practice was full of excitement for beholders.
Mr. Chanute stated in beginning that when, in 1891, Professor Langley, the eminent astronomer, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, published his important work, "Experiments in Aerodynamics," the closing paragraph of the summary was as follows: "I wish, however, to put on record my belief, that the time has come for these questions (i. e., those of aerodynamics and aerial ...
Caption: Octave Chanute holds his biwing glider design on top of a dune. At sixty-four years of age, Octave left the experimental "glides" to his younger companions. Photograph from Calumet Regional Archives, IU Northwest.
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.
1 This brief address was given at Gary, Indiana, on Saturday P.M., July 11, 1936. The occasion was the dedication of a bronze tablet marker to Octave Chanute, at the site of his experiments with gliders in 1896 and 1897. The ceremonies were held in. Marquette Park. Octave Chanute: Pioneer Glider.
Octave Chanute's photograph of the Wright 1902 glider in flight at Kill Devil Hills. The glider has just passed Dan Tate who is in the foreground. The Wright Brothers camp building can be seen in the distance. The Wright brother piloting the glider is not identified. Note on reverse by Chanute "15. Gliding past Mr Tate."
