This week's emphasis is going to be on classic aviation and aircraft. I will be using information to enhance the daily picture I present here. While the Wright Brothers are credited with being to first to fly a "heavier than Air machine", the basic concepts and designs go much further back according to this website: http://mentalfloss.com/article/16814/who-flew-wright-brothers.
An early pioneer in the aviation industry was William E. Boeing. The very beginning of the Boeing Aircraft conglomerate was in approximately 1910 to 1915 according to this page from the Boeing website: http://www.boeing.com/boeing/history/narrative/n002boe.page. By the beginning of world war II Boeing had become a major aircraft company and had merged with the Stearman Aircraft Corporation. The Boeing corporation was a major supplier of aircraft and related services to the U.S. Government that helped to win the war. One of the aircraft that actually helped win the war at it's most basic level was the Stearman Biplane, a basic flight trainer for both the U.S. Naval Forces and the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF ) . It was commonly known at the time as the Yellow Peril and Kaydet. Here is one of my copyrighted photographs that I took of at the Winter Haven Municipal Airport , which is also known as Gilbert Field.
There are at least two other major competitors for Boeing during that time frame. Glenn L. Martin the founder of the Glenn L. Martin Company and Glenn Hammond Curtiss who formed a company with the Wright-Brothers .
An early pioneer in the aviation industry was William E. Boeing. The very beginning of the Boeing Aircraft conglomerate was in approximately 1910 to 1915 according to this page from the Boeing website: http://www.boeing.com/boeing/history/narrative/n002boe.page. By the beginning of world war II Boeing had become a major aircraft company and had merged with the Stearman Aircraft Corporation. The Boeing corporation was a major supplier of aircraft and related services to the U.S. Government that helped to win the war. One of the aircraft that actually helped win the war at it's most basic level was the Stearman Biplane, a basic flight trainer for both the U.S. Naval Forces and the U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF ) . It was commonly known at the time as the Yellow Peril and Kaydet. Here is one of my copyrighted photographs that I took of at the Winter Haven Municipal Airport , which is also known as Gilbert Field.
There are at least two other major competitors for Boeing during that time frame. Glenn L. Martin the founder of the Glenn L. Martin Company and Glenn Hammond Curtiss who formed a company with the Wright-Brothers .
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