Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2592: The Steep Ascent
Posted on · Episode: 2592 The Steep Ascent: Anne Morrow Lindbergh fascinatingly fuses fact and fiction. Today, fact and fiction meet.
Tag: flight
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2590: Orville Wright and Flight
Posted on · Episode: 2590 In which Orville Wright tries to predict the future of the aeroplane. Today, Orville Wrignt and flight.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2543: Clara Adams Takes Flight
Posted on · Episode: 2543 Clara Adams: 150,000 miles of maiden flights. Today, Clara Adams flies.
Houston Matters
Flying high with the Fly Girls
Posted on · A new exhibit at the 1940 Air Terminal Museum highlights some of the women of Houston's aviation history.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2489: Powering Aeroplanes
Posted on · Episode: 2489 Before we invent the aeroplane, let’s decide how to power it. Today, we wonder how to power our flying machines.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2474: Antoine de St. Exupéry
Posted on · Episode: 2474 Antoine de St. Exupéry, André Gide, and a new vocabulary for a new technology. Today, Antoine de St. Exupéry.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2465: A Fine Early Aeroplane Book
Posted on · Episode: 2465 Victor Lougheed’s extraordinary 1909 aeroplane book. Today, where were the first aeroplanes going?
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2417: Kill-Devil Hills
Posted on · Episode: 2417 Kill Devil Hill: the texture of the Wright Brothers’ accomplishment. Today, we watch invention unfolding.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2347: Munich Museum, 1912
Posted on · Episode: 2347 Watching the Deutsches Museum evolve: 1903 until now. Today, a museum is born.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2319: Flying to the Arctic
Posted on · Episode: 2319 Trying to get to the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon. Today, we fly to the North Pole.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2295: Using Up Aeroplanes
Posted on · Episode: 2295 All the old biplanes allowed to crash, because it was so much fun. Today, we use up the old aeroplanes.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2245: Old Soggy No. 1
Posted on · Episode: 2245 Slats Rodgers’ Old Soggy No. 1, the first Texas-Built aeroplane to fly. Today, Texas’ first aeroplane.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2189: Tom Benoist
Posted on · Episode: 2189 Tom Benoist and the first commercial airline. Today, we invent the airline.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2161: When the Eye Plays Tricks
Posted on · Episode: 2161 When the eye plays tricks, and we see more than is. Today, our eyes trick us.
News
Houston-bound Flight Evacuated After Smoke In Cabin
Posted on · Officials said in a statement that passengers and crew members evacuated without incident using slides and were returned to the gate.