| VIEW-MASTER REEL 1 1. Wilbur Wright Plane in Flight 2. Wright Brothers Memorial 3. Glenn Curtiss in His Biplane 4. Cover Picture—Ellehammer Plane, 1906 5. Farman Aeroplane, 1908 6. Glenn Martin's First Plane 7. First Carrier Landing, 1911 |
VIEW-MASTER REEL 2 1. Seat and Engine of "Vin Fiz" 2. Cover Picture—Arthur Smith, Pioneer Stuntman 3. Curtiss "Jenny" 4. Early Aerial Refueling 5. Ford Trimotor 6. Goddard Rocket 7. Lindbergh "Spirit of St. Louis" |
VIEW-MASTER REEL 3 1. Graf Zeppelin Flying in Egypt 2. Dirigibles Shenandoah and ZR-3 3. Stratosphere Balloon 4. Pre-World War II Army Bomber 5. Gyroplane 6. "Winnie Mae," Globe-Girdler 7. China Clipper |
| B685 Booklet Sample OCR MAN'S ANCIENT DREAM: TO FLY Primitive man had always envied the birds. Ancient legends about men riding on winged horses and flying carpets reflected the longing to fly, But man's clumsy attempts to fly by jumping from a height and flapping his arms convinced him that this wondrous gift was reserved for the gods. The first man-made device that could rise into the air was the kite. But what kind of device could support a man's weight in Ehe air? In the 14lh century, Leonardo d-a Vinci, the Italian artist and mechanical genius, studied the anatomy of birds and drew sketches showing many of his ideas for flying mechanisms . Man's earliest progress was in lighter-than-air flight. In I 783 the MontgolEier brothers of France invented the first balloon, a big paper bag full of hot smoke. Later that year, Jean de Rosier made the first human ascension in a Montgolfier balloon. The first dirigible (steerable) balloon was built by Henri Giffard of France in 1852; it had a light steam engine. But it was heavier than air flight that was destined to prove most practical. In the 1870's, Alphonse Penaud of France built models of three forms of heavier-than-air craft: the helicopter, which rises by action of a vertical rotor; the ormlhoptcr, which, flaps its wings like a bird; and the airplane, which has a wing for lift and a propeller for thrust. (A successful ornlthopter has yet to be buillt. Otto Lilicnthalof Germany built gliders in which ho made more than 2,000 glides near Berlin, But powered flight for a man-carrying cnifl proved the most difficult problem of ail for pioneer experimenters. The earliest motors were not powerful enough, and no one before the Wright brothers understood the aerodynamics of the wing. In 1903, Samuel Pieipont attempted a manned flight with his invention, the "aero- drome," from a large houseboat on the Potumae River. The pilot was his assistant, Charles M. Manly, Despite the advanced design of its radial engine, the aerodrome failed to fly and fell into the river, The 21 View-Master stereo pictures that follow tell the story of flight from 1903 to 1935. They include 13 historic black-and-white stereos, courtesy of Keystone View Co. Etc Etc |
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