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Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2230: James Herman Banning

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 28, 2022 · Episode: 2230 James Banning, pioneering Black pilot. Today, James Herman Banning.

Tags Alexandr Eaglerock barnstorming Bessie Coleman Aero Club black Black aviators flying schools James Herman Banning Thomas C. Allen transcontinental flight William J. Powell

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2750: The Air Show

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 7, 2023 · Episode: 2750 The Wings Over Houston Air Show, a learning laboratory. Today, we go to an air show.

Tags 27th Annual Commemorative Air Force Wings Over Houston Air Show airplanes barnstorming Canadian Snowbirds flight Heavy Metal Jet Team mustang radial in-line engine sounds stunt planes thunderbolt transportation

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2656: An American in Paris

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 16, 2023 · Episode: 2656 An American in Paris: Eugene Bullard, Black hero in the jazz age. Today, an American in Paris.

Tags " Casablanca American race relations Arthur "Dooley" Wilson black Ernest Hemingway Eugene Bullard F. Scott Fitzgerald jazz Josephine Baker Langston Hughes Montmartre paris prejudice Salvador Dali SPAD VII WW-I fighter pilot

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2601: America in 1900

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 8, 2023 · Episode: 2601 What did we see when we looked at the new century in 1900? Not what you might expect. Today, America in 1900.

Tags black Booker T. Washington Century Magazine electricity in industry James Russell Lowell James Whitcomb Riley John Burroughs poetry Rudyard Kipling Spanish America War Theodore Roosevelt Wagnerian opera stagecraft Washington Zoo yellow-crowned sparrow

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Engines of Our Ingenuity 2295: Using Up Aeroplanes

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on August 22, 2022 · Episode: 2295 All the old biplanes allowed to crash, because it was so much fun. Today, we use up the old aeroplanes.

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