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Tag: flight

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1967: Félix Tournachon–Nadar

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 6, 2020 · Episode: 1967 Of clouds and birds: Meet Felix Tournachon — Nadar. Today, birds vs. clouds.

Tags aerial mapping aeroplane airplanes airships balloons Bleriot flight Gaspard-Felix Tournachon La Belle Epoch La boheme Nadar Paris sewers photography Victor Hugo

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1951: Poetry and Airplanes

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on November 1, 2020 · Episode: 1951 In which poets explain how the airplane matured. Today, poetry, flight, and childhood’s end.

Tags Anne Morrow Lindbergh Auden flight icarus leonardo military air warfare Milton Ovid poetry poets Rilke Rukeyser Saint Exupery Selden Rodman Sydney Alexander William Rose Benet

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1944: Ruth Elder

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 18, 2020 · Episode: 1944 Ruth Elder: A forgotten activist on an old postcard. Today, an odd postcard.

Tags earhart flight flying Lingbergh Ninety-Nines postcards Powder Puff Derby Ruth Elder Stinsondetroiter transportation women Women's Air Derby

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1914: Cal Rodgers and Vin Fiz

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 31, 2020 · Episode: 1914 Cal Rodgers and the great Vin Fiz trans-America flight. Today, we fly across America — for the first time.

Tags Cal Calbraith Perry Rodgers cross-country flying flight record setting transportation Vin Fiz William Randolph Hearst Wright Brothers Wright Model-B Flyer

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1889: Dolly Shepherd

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 12, 2020 · Episode: 1889 Dolly Shepherd, her mother, and her daughter: pioneering parachuting. Today, three women parachutists.

Tags Buffalo Bill Cody daredevils Dolly Shepherd flight Gaudron Molly Sedgwick parachutes parachuting women

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1887: Ernest K. Gann

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 8, 2020 · Episode: 1887 Ernest K. Gann: pioneer and portrayer of American flight. Today, Ernest Gann.

Tags aircraft Ernest K. Gann flight flying piloting airplanes transportation writing

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1885: Hurricane & Spitfire

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 31, 2020 · Episode: 1885 Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire: plowshares become swords. Today, we beat a plowshare into a sword.

Tags aerial warfare Battle of Britain design engineeing flight Hawker Hurricane Merlin Engine Schneider Trophy Snoopy Supermarine Spitfire technological progress Thomas Sopwith war

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1865: The Kinzua Viaduct

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 27, 2020 · Episode: 1865 Octave Chanute and the Kinzua Viaduct: bridging two centuries. Today, a story of railroads and airplanes.

Tags Buffalo coal transportation construction disasters flight glider flying iron Lake Erie & Pennsylvania railroad masonry New York Octave Chanute railway steel tornado Wright Brothers

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1857: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Quiet

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 13, 2020 · Episode: 1857 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, gliding, and the quest for quiet. Today, a glider pilot seeks quiet.

Tags Anne Morrow Lindbergh Cessna Bird Charles Lindbergh flight flying gliders Henry Hawley Bowlus metaphor poetry quiet Reeve Lindbergh updrafts women writing

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1852: Doolittle’s First Airplane

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 10, 2020 · Episode: 1852 Popular Mechanics and Jimmy Doolittle’s first airplane. Today, Jimmy Doolittle’s first airplane.

Tags aircraft airplanes B-25 raid on Tokyo flight flying gliders Inventing Modern James H. Doolittle jimmy Popular Mechanics savage boy inventor Shangri La WW-II

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1819: Four Women on Hempstead Plains

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 9, 2020 · Episode: 1819 In which four women gravitate skyward on Hempstead Plains, L.I. Today, four women gravitate skyward.

Tags aeroplanes airplanes barnstorming Bessica Raiche Blanche Scott flight Glenn Curtiss Harriet Quimby Hempstead Plains Long Island Matilde Moisant women Wright Brothers

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2770: Building the Mustang

Fitz Walker

Posted on February 5, 2020 · Episode: 2770 Developing the P-51 Mustang fighter. Today, our guest, NASA engineer Fitz Walker, remembers the P-51 Mustang.

Tags airplane aviation england fighter plane flight mustang naca nasa North American P-51 spitfire transportation war wwii

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1813: Raymonde de Laroche

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on February 3, 2020 · Episode: 1813 Raymonde de Laroche, a brief bright flame. Today, the first woman pilot.

Tags aeroplanes air shows airplanes danger death exhibition flying flight france Santos Dumont The Wright Brothers Voison women pilots

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1813: Raymonde de Laroche

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 29, 2020 · Episode: 1813 Raymonde de Laroche, a brief bright flame. Today, the first woman pilot.

Tags aeroplanes air shows airplanes danger death exhibition flying flight france Santos Dumont The Wright Brothers Voison women pilots

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 1808: First Time Up!

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on January 12, 2020 · Episode: 1808 First Time Up!: In which Ford celebrates his new Trimotor and we fly for the first time. Today, our first airplane ride.

Tags Admiral Byrd airplane construction commercial transportation DC-3 flight Fokker Trimotor Ford Trimotor marketing safety

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