Download or read book The 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet written by Kenneth E. Pauley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's first international air meet was held January 10-20, 1910, in Los Angeles on a mesa called Dominguez Hill, situated 13.5 miles south of the plaza at the pueblo of Los Angeles. Enthusiasm for aviation grew after the first international air meet in 1909 in Rheims, France, where American aviator Glenn H. Curtiss won three prestigious speed prizes and 36,000 francs. An even more spectacular air meet, which would also invigorate the local economy, was promoted for Los Angeles. Businessman Dick Ferris, the Los Angeles Merchants and Manufacturers Association, and the Los Angeles Examiner collaborated to make it possible. Most Americans had never seen the newfangled machines that soared in the skies. Initially skeptical, they soon were awed. So began America's love affair with aviation. The air meet influenced aviation in Southern California and transportation worldwide into the 21st century.
Download or read book 1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet written by Kenneth E. Pauley and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's first international air meet was held January 10-20, 1910, in Los Angeles on a mesa called Dominguez Hill, situated 13.5 miles south of the plaza at the pueblo of Los Angeles. Enthusiasm for aviation grew after the first international air meet in 1909 in Rheims, France, where American aviator Glenn H. Curtiss won three prestigious speed prizes and 36,000 francs. An even more spectacular air meet, which would also invigorate the local economy, was promoted for Los Angeles. Businessman Dick Ferris, the Los Angeles Merchants and Manufacturers Association, and the Los Angeles Examiner collaborated to make it possible. Most Americans had never seen the newfangled machines that soared in the skies. Initially skeptical, they soon were awed. So began America's love affair with aviation. The air meet influenced aviation in Southern California and transportation worldwide into the 21st century.
Download or read book The 1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet written by Kenneth E. Pauley and published by Arcadia Pub. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles boasts a rich aviation history.
Download or read book Official Programme of the Second Annual International Aviation Meet Dominguez Field Los Angeles California Dec 24 30 1910 Jan 1 and 3 1911 written by and published by . This book was released on 1910* with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L A Birdmen written by Richard J. Goodrich and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although most credit Wilbur and Orville Wright with America’s first powered flight, two months before the brothers lifted off the sands of Kitty Hawk, a French immigrant named August Greth flew the California Eagle, an airship of his own design, across the skies of San Francisco. While the Wrights claimed they had invented a flying machine, Greth and the California aviators proved it in front of thousands of spectators at state fairs and festivals across the country. L.A. Birdmen is the fascinating and forgotten story of America’s first aviators—Californians like August Greth, Tom Baldwin, Roy Knabenshue, John Montgomery, and James Zerbe. Possessing a rare blend of ingenuity, creativity, and bravery, these pilots captured the world’s attention in 1910 when Los Angeles hosted America’s first international airshow. Inspired by a flying exhibition held in Reims, France, Los Angeles promoter Dick Ferris convinced the city to host a competing event—a show that featured the world’s best pilots and machines and would firmly establish Los Angeles as the center of American aviation. Featuring a fierce competition between French pilot Louis Paulhan and American Glenn Curtiss, the Los Angeles International Aviation Meet was a revelation: the pilots shattered existing aviation records, refuted those who doubted the viability of heavier-than-air flying machines, and performed death-defying stunts. The ten days of flying received national newspaper coverage and attracted more than 100,000 visitors, including future industry leaders like Glenn Martin and William Boeing. L.A. Birdmen offers a high-flying account of the West Coast contribution to aviation, a little-recognized chapter in the story of American flight. In the first decade of the twentieth century, these dashing aviators—not the Wrights—were the public face of American aviation.
Download or read book Official Program Tuesday Jan 18 1910 written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One program for the "First Aviation Meet in Los Angeles." Printed at the top on recto is "Official Program Tuesday Jan. 18 / 1910 / First in America / Aviation Meet." Printed on the right side of recto is "Los / Angeles," and "January 10-20 / 1910." Illustrated in the center of the program a man waves from a biplane surrounded by monoplanes, dirigibles and hot air balloons that fly above a city. In the foreground of the illustration are two palm trees. Printed at the bottom of the program is "American and Foreign / Aviatiors / Daily Flights / Ladies' Day / Price 10 cents." Printed on verso of the program is a photo of a man captioned "Louis Paulhan The Man Bird." Printed inside the program is a list of events and schedule along with an insert of a photograph of a woman captioned "Mme. Louis Paulhan."
Download or read book Official Program Saturday Jan 15 1910 written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Program Thursday Jan 20 1910 written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One program for the "First Aviation Meet in Los Angeles." Printed at the top on recto is "Official Program Thursday Jan. 20 / 1910 / First in America / Aviation Meet." Printed on the right side of recto is "Los / Angeles," and "January 10-20 / 1910." Illustrated in the center of the program a man waves from a biplane surrounded by monoplanes, dirigibles and hot air balloons that fly above a city. In the foreground of the illustration are two palm trees. Printed at the bottom of the program is "American and Foreign / Aviatiors / Daily Flights / Merchants' and Manufacturers' Day / Price 10 cents." The verso of the program features a photograph of a woman captioned "Mme Louis Paulhan." Inside the program is a list of events and a schedule.
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Download or read book Aviation Meet written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs show planes and balloons competing in meet; often have accompanying photograph of owner/pilot.
Download or read book Official Programme of the Second Annual International Aviation Meet written by Aero Club of California and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eugene Ely written by John H. Zobel and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Eugene Ely’s life is the stuff of myth and legend. Much of what has been written about him relies on sensationalized newspaper accounts from an era when early twentieth century reporters unabashedly fabricated stories to increase newspaper circulation. Those accounts portray Ely as a reckless daredevil and are essentially historical fiction. Eugene Ely: Pioneer of Navigation cuts through the sensationalism by relying on primary sources and photographic records and triangulating multiple sources to arrive at an honest portrait of the man and his legacy. The result is the story of a quiet, self-effacing Iowan who did extraordinary things. Ely’s measured approach and calculated demonstrations of the potential of military aviation ultimately pointed the way to today’s modern aircraft carriers, over a century later.
Download or read book Aviation in Northern California 1910 1939 written by Allen Herr and published by Stansbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aviation in Northern California 1910-1939: Vol. 1, San Francisco Bay Area is the only book to give a detailed account of early flying in the Bay Area. Historian Allen Herr recalls the aviation pioneers who flew weekly exhibitions promoting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition fifteen months prior to its San Francisco opening. These pioneers formed flying schools, built airports, manufactured aircraft, and competed against each other. Herr captures the energy behind the Bay Area aviation movement, tells who was involved, and describes the effects of their extraordinary determination and achievements. This edition is one of three in Herr's series of Aviation in Northern California 1910-1939.
Download or read book The International Aviation Meet Chicago 1911 written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Connected Metropolis written by Maxwell Johnson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Connected Metropolis Maxwell Johnson describes Los Angeles's rise in the early twentieth century as catalyzed by a series of upper-class debates about the city's connections to the outside world. By focusing on specific moments in the city's development when tensions over Los Angeles's connections, or lack thereof, emerged, Johnson ties each movement to two or three contemporary figures who influenced the debates at hand. The elites' previous efforts to secure nationwide and global connections for Los Angeles were wildly successful following World War II. As a result, the city became a landing spot for African American migrants, Cambodian and Laotian refugees, and Mexican and Central American immigrants. Johnson argues that the city's history is more defined by external relationships than previously understood, and those relationships have given the history of the city more continuity than originally recognized. At the turn of the twentieth century, the politics of connection revolved around initiatives to tie Los Angeles to other places both tangibly and metaphorically. Elites built tangible connections to secure, among other things, the water that irrigated the citrus farms of Los Angeles, the capital that propelled its businesses, and the people who migrated from the Midwest to buy its houses. To build metaphorical connections that located the city amid transcontinental and trans-Pacific movements, elites themselves often transcended nearby borders and pursued connections at will. Los Angeles stood as a focal point for elite ambitions, a place with a more ambivalent relationship to external connections. The true story of Los Angeles's rise lies in the spectacular visions and rambunctious activism of a group of elite men dedicated to transforming a remote frontier town into a global metropolis.
Download or read book Blue Sky Metropolis written by Peter J. Westwick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like citrus, oil, movies, radio, and television, aerospace helped create Southern California and embody its values. Blue Sky Metropolis launches an entirely fresh consideration of an iconic industry that answered the immemorial hunger of the human race for flight and the future."--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California "Blue Sky Metropolis presents an intriguing survey of a unique time in Southern California history, when cheap land and benign weather lured massive aerospace enterprises to the region—eventually serving as home to nearly half of the nation’s defense and space fabricators. Before there was a Silicon Valley, high-tech dreamers were on the loose in the Southland, creating inventions as diverse as the Voyager planetary spacecraft and the Stealth bomber. These highly readable essays help us understand how it happened—how Southern California shaped aerospace, and vice versa."—Charles Elachi, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory "Peter Westwick has assembled a rich collection of essays that tell a wonderful story about the importance of the aerospace industry to Southern California and the importance of Southern California to the aerospace industry. There's technology, sociology, economics, geography, anthropology, and much more woven through the chapters. It's an ambitious project, but it succeeds in being interesting, informative, and entertaining."—Michael Rich, President and CEO, The RAND Corporation
