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(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.
Aug 11, 2016 · Location: Pioneers of Flight. 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.
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Chanute's Katydid Glider. Rear view of Chanute's glider multiplane model, with moveable main panel controls. In 1896, Chanute commissioned five gliders that were constructed in Avery's shop. The Katydid featured multiple wings that could be moved about on the fuselage to facilitate experimentation.
Octave Chanute 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. His first job was as a member of a surveying.
May 18, 2018 · With its pilot—probably August Herring—clinging to its underwing, a Chanute biplane glider skirts the side of a sand dune on Lake Michigan’s shore in the summer of 1896. (Library of Congress) Share This Article
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.
Birth: February 18, 1832. Death: November 23, 1910. Octave Chanute. Published his classic book Progress in Flying Machines in 1894. Began to search for automatic flight control in 1896 by designing and building a series of gliders which flew successfully.
