You might be familiar with the car company Bugatti, now owned by Volkswagen. Their Bugatti Veyron Super Sport holds the Guinness World Record for Fastest Production Car. The Bugatti brand has a long history, beginning in 1909 with “Automobiles Ettore Bugatti,” a company founded by Ettore Bugatti.
Ettore Bugatti was born in Italy in 1881 to a family of artists. Bugatti began to establish himself as a car designer as early as 1901, when his Bugatti Type 2 car won a gold medal at the International Breeding and Sport Exhibition in Milan, Italy. Bugatti carried on his family’s artistic legacy in the design of his race cars, which became renowned for their speed, power, and elegant design. But he didn’t just make cars.
The Bugatti 100p
In 1938,
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Here is a quote about De Monge’s design philosophy from an article in the Air and Space Magazine:
“De Monge left no written record of the thinking that went into the airplane (though he made some intriguing remarks during an interview conducted late in his life, while he was working as an automotive engineer in the United States). But [Scotty] Wilson is convinced that de Monge adhered to the design philosophy espoused by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the beloved French author and World War II P-38 pilot: ‘Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.’”
An example of this philosophy was the removal of a conventional canopy (the glass enclosure around the pilot). Most fighter aircraft at the time were built with the engine in the nose just behind the propeller. To allow the pilot to see past the engine, these fighters were built with raised canopies that sat on top of the fuselage. But having these extra bulges increases drag. Bugatti got around this by putting the pilot in the nose of the aircraft, and moving the engines. The engines were put behind the pilot and a system of drive shafts powered the propellers.
After the designs were mostly finalized, construction began. The airplane was built in Paris in the second floor of a furniture shop.
The frame and skin of the airplane were made almost entirely out of wood, despite the difficulties involved with shaping wood into rounded shapes. Usually, body
This was where Philip Condit stepped in. He had been an engineer with Boeing since 1965; and assisted in the design of the 707, 727, 737, 747, and 757. He understood how the company operated. One of the first things he changed was how the aircraft was to be physically designed. Previously, the engineers would design a wing on paper, build it out of wood or foam, and then add it to a mockup of the aircraft. The people designing the fuel tanks would then add in their
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.
Now imagine how hard it would be. Really hard right? Well, while constructing the first aircraft, the Wright brothers went through many problems and challenges, but they had to learn how to overcome them. For example, they went through weather issues, religious problems and technical difficulties. They must of had incredible inventing skills to overcome these complicated challenges!
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
Ever since the first time Eugene Burton Ely completed the very first take-off and landing from a warship on the 18th of January, 1911, the future of the Navy had drastically changed. Little did Ely know that in a mere fifty years Naval Aviation would have a major contribution to the United States winning World War II. Captain Charles F. Pond exclaimed that Ely’s feat was “the most important landing of a bird since the dove flew back to the ark.” This quote by Captain Pond shows just how important naval aviation was going to be in the future along with the Navy’s need for vessel’s to carry these planes. The modern aircraft carriers of the Navy that we know now were vastly different from the warships with wooden flight decks like on the USS
“Keep it simple, stupid”, was a phrase that Kelly Johnson followed. It means that things, such as military systems or equipment, work better if kept things nice and simple. How Clarence “Kelly” Johnson changed aeronautics, he had a part in designing things such as the F-117 Stealth Fighter and the SR-71 Blackbird, as well as U-2 spy plane, and the famed Model 10 Electra, the plane that Amelia Earhart flew on her attempted flight around the world.
‘When intelligent designers of the late 19th or early 20th century looked at the anonymous artifacts of 18th- and 19th-century industrialization, they saw great beauty in the simple, engineered structures, and set
His book outlines the many prototypes and the cutting-edge technology used to develop these essential vehicles. He played a critical role in planning amphibious assaults and overseeing the development of the technology required to complete these operations. As a result of his direct oversight, assaults such as Normandy were made possible. In his book, he gives the credit of successful operations to the technology used. As a military member, we are taught to always think one step ahead of our enemies and prepare for all possible outcomes which leads me to the prevention stage of my
During the first of the many days of World War I, the pilots were considered the “eyes of the army” (Feltus 1). They were used mainly to scout enemy positions, and then report the whereabouts of the enemy to the army. However, these aircrafts started out as slow and proved as easy targets for the enemy and the advanced anti-aircraft weapons, and there was a massive loss of life as a result of this (Wilkin 4). One monumental event that occurred during the Second World War, was when the British Royal Air Force conducted a bombing of Berlin, and thus Germany had fallen back multiple weeks in planning their highly effective and dangerous rocket programs (Bailey 133). The raid of the German capital city was a decisive event in World War II, and allowed the Allies to get the edge over the Axis powers. Although reconnaissance and bomber pilots were extremely important, fighter pilots had a more cataclysmic effect on the war. As almost all pilots grew tired of using pistols to shoot at enemy planes while having to fly, they wanted an easier and more effective way to both fly and take down an opposing plane. Then, on one day in 1915, the Germans captured the plane of French aviator Roland Garros, and since Garros had innovatively built a machine gun that fired in between the spinning of his propellers, the German army sent the plane to the Fokker plane factory and the design was copied. After the Germans got their hands on Garros’
The beginning of the museum started out with the root of all planes, the Wright brothers. Furthermore, the Wright brothers are widely known for building the first flying airplane. Moreover, the museum included an exact replica of their first
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The blueprints for modern cars were perfected by the Germans and the French in the late 1800’s. In the first part of the 1900’s Americans dominated the industry. A man by the name of Henry Ford created mass-production techniques that became standard for three companies. Those three companies were Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler. They were the biggest companies by the 1920s. During World War II and afterward car production by the Europeans and Japanese soared.
The Wright brothers invented the first airplanes. “During 1890 while Orville and Wilbur Wright were working in a bicycle shop, the Wright Brothers got