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Samuel Langley's successful flights of his model Aerodromes Number 5 and Number 6 in 1896 led to plans to build a full-sized, human-carrying airplane. Langley's simple approach was merely to scale up the unpiloted Aerodromes to human-carrying proportions.
- Langley Aerodrome Number 5 | National Air and Space Museum
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- Samuel P. Langley: Aviation Pioneer - Smithsonian Libraries
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- Samuel P. Langley Collection | National Air and Space Museum
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- Langley Aerodrome Number 5 | National Air and Space Museum
In 1896 Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, flew an unmanned steam-driven airplane model three-fourths of a mile. In 1898 he received a Congressional grant of $51,000 for further development of an airplane capable of carrying a person.
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Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834 – February 27, 1906) was an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. He was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a professor of astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the director of the Allegheny Observatory.
The Langley Flight Foundation’s mission is to commemorate Samuel Pierpont Langley’s achievement of sustained, heavier-than-air mechanical flight through the construction and display of an exact reproduction of Aerodrome No. 5 in Stafford County, Virginia.
