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Occupation (s) Civil engineer, railway engineer and bridge designer, aviation pioneer. Octave Chanute (February 18, 1832 – November 23, 1910) was a French-American [1] civil engineer and aviation pioneer. He advised and publicized many aviation enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers. At his death, he was hailed as the father of aviation ...
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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.
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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's flying biplane glider, also known as the Chanute-Herring glider - 1896. Both Herring and Chanute contributed to the design of this aircraft. Each 16-foot (4.9-meter) wing was covered with varnished silk. The pilot hung from two bars that ran down from the upper wings and passed under his arms.
May 18, 2018 · Octave Chanute and the Symphony of Flight. 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) Octave Chanute conducted from behind the scenes. The letter, dated May 13, 1900, was astonishing in its ...
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.
Octave Chanute's photograph of the Wright 1902 glider in flight at Kill Devil Hills. The pilot is unidentified but is one of the Wright brothers. Note on reverse by Chanute "12. A slight oscillation."
