I Am The Son Of Wilhelm Boing And Marie Ortmann

Fear holds back a person’s ability to commit to an event, a relationship, and contains one back from his or her dream. As a child, I dreaded boarding an airplane due to the altitude and the pressure closing one’s ears, a terrifying experience. In addition to my fear of airplanes, flights would absolutely bore me. Hence, my impatient reaction of shaking my leg in a fast paced, up-down motion, a nervous tick. Over the years, every time my parents announced a trip that required an airplane flight, the idea would horrify me. Nevertheless, the distinct moments I boarded airplanes, there were always hints of curiosity about the bird-shaped flying machine. How does this strange machinery work? How could an airplane be this frightening? That fear was the foundation of my commitment to aerospace engineering.

With his new found fame, Lindbergh spent much of his time in promoting the aviation field while going around the United States with his iconic plane the Spirit of St. Louis. While visiting various cities in the US, he would participate in countless parades as well as give speeches. His fame grew to such height that he was soon regarded as an international celebrity who was nicknamed “Lucky Lindy” and “The Lone Eagle”. By 1927 he released a book entitled “We”, about his historic flight which quickly became a bestseller. Throughout all his rising fame and influence, Lindbergh had always stuck to helping the aviation industry as well as other causes which he felt important.

In the months, weeks, and eventually days leading up to my flight to Germany the panic was gnawing away at me. Despite the fact that this wasn’t the first time I was venturing out without my parents or even my first time on a plane, it was my first time for a myriad of other experiences in my life. My first international adventure, my first time living with a family that wasn’t my own, and my first time being surrounded by people speaking a different language; all of which began with a simple decision to cross the threshold between the jet bridge and the plane.

The 1920s was a decade of prosperity and prelude to the diverse introduction of new technologies. At the same time the automobile became popular, aircraft began to develop. Although during the World War II, aircraft is widely used to attack into enemy lines, prior to this, aircraft was used to deliver mail and compete for the distance it could fly without making any stop. One such aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh challenged to the first solo transatlantic flight and in a moment, he became one of the America’s most beloved hero.

On September 25, 1978, I was a 16-year-old inspiring young pilot going to high school within 10 miles of San Diego’s Lindbergh International Airport. It was about

I was five when I saw an f-22 Raptor break the sound barrier. There was a lull in the atmosphere as it silently glided across the sky, I counted...one, two, three; it was out of sight. Behind it came the sound like a tsunami on an empty beach, crashing and rattling everything in its path. It was beautiful. I looked to my aunt, uncle, and mother all in battle dress with a grin. I knew I had to fly. The discipline I learned from growing up in a military family has prepared and inspired my pursuit of flight.

The first flight occurred in 1903 when the Wright brothers famously took their airplane for a final test flight in December. In the years after this historic flight many people start to see the potential for airplanes in war, transportation, and shipping. Other builders disregarded previous doubt about flying and began to replicate the ideas of the Wright brothers in creating planes with three axes. In addition, the approach of WWI prompted military personnel to pursue uses of airplanes as a war machine. The airplane influenced many aspects of American culture after it’s invention including civilian life, war technology, and individual possibility.

“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end,” said Robin Sharman. Advancements and progress that came from innovational minds took time and there were many obstacles and hardships. During the 1900s the world gave birth of the bright minds of the Wright Brothers that gave the world’s first successful airplane, also the modifications of the corset gave way to new fashion styles and trends and finally the tragic Galveston Hurricane paved the pathway of new mechanics and progressive ideas. Before, the thought of people being in the air and flying seemed impossible and dangerous, but the 1900s was a decade of advancement and many innovative minds such as Orville and Wilbur Wright, tried to build a “flying machine”. Unlike

Airplanes started to become a huge contribution to transporting our mail, weapons for wars, and many other things. Wilbur and Orville Wright, owners of a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, not only built, but flew the first airplane over the beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903 (Tindall, Shi, 2013). “Planes did not advance as rapidly as automobiles. Although in 1914, the outbreak of the war soon changed that, once the Europeans developed it as a military weapon” (Tindall, Shi, 2013). During the war, an American aircraft industry had developed.

The brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright, possibly the two most renowned representatives of American aeronautics, were the first to experience controlled, continuous flight of a powered airplane in history. Despite being autodidactic in the area of engineering, the duo proved to be extraordinarily successful, testing and refining their strategies to overcome successive challenges that arose with the building of a plane (Crouch 226). The two were so far ahead in the race for flight that they even anticipated and found solutions to problems that more learned scientists could not have even begun to predict. Successful, man-controlled, powered flight was a fundamental turning point in history; it transformed the methods of how the United States

I hate planes, I always have. Ever since I was little I had a fear of ever doing an one of those unsafe pieces of metal flying through the sky. I made a promise to myself that I would never go on a plane, and I never thought that I would ever break that promise. I never like just giving up on something, like a promise. But, I really should have kept that promise. Because, if I did keep the promise to myself, I wouldn’t hear the screaming. I wouldn’t see all the crying. I wouldn’t have been in my worst nightmare--I wouldn’t have been in a plane crash.

Ronald Dwight got into aviation Superior State Teachers College, it was 1938 he decided to enroll in the Civilian Flight Program. He took private lessons for flying before getting into college so that he could easily advance in training, after 3 years of college he enlisted in the Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet Program.The program was the airforce at the time, it only came after WW2. This would change his life forever. He completed his basic training in Gardner Field California. His next step in to advance his career would be the Rankin Aeronautical Academy.

As a result of his close associations with shipping and the railroads during about ten years of working in the grain business, Dad devel-oped an intense interest in railroading which never died. Railroading was a dangerous business around the turn of the 20th century, per-haps the equivalent of the airline business in the 1930s and 40s. A career with the railroads was discouraged by the family, so Dad never pursued his dream. He succumbed to family pressure around 1913 and returned to Hokah to run the family grocery store, Reilly & Reilly, along with his sister Nell. I think his disappointment over railroading was a major factor in his later acquiescence to my en-deavors in the aviation industry, neither encouraged nor

Clyde Corrigan, Jr. was born on January 22, 1907, in Galveston, TX. He was born to Clyde Sr., a Civil Engineer and Evelyn Nelson Corrigan, a School Teacher. As a young boy, he moved around until his parents divorced and his mom and siblings moved to California. After the divorce his mother changed his name to Douglas Corrigan so that he would no longer be his father’s name sake. In his early teens he and his brothers lived with his father in New York for a time while his mother recuperated from surgeries. Then, in 1922, after his mother’s death, he started working a higher paying job to take care of his brother. On a profound day in the summer of 1925, Corrigan’s curiosity of aviation began. Over the next 13 years, Corrigan worked in numerous

Wilbur and Orville Wright were pioneers, skilled craftsman, and engineers not only in aviation but in many other trades as well. “They loved to tinker and experiment with mechanical things and it characterized the Wrights through out their lives. Each of the brothers had a deeply ingrained inquisitive streak that was nurtured in a home that was encouraged.” (Moolman, 1980, p. 107) They had a good family upbringing, but moved frequently. The Wright brothers paved the way for aviation to take off with their thoughts, ideas, and inventions.