First in Flight Page 28
Burkhart, J. C., 229
Butusov, Paul, 104
Caffeys Inlet Lifesaving Station, 141–42, 148
Camp d’Auvours, 235
Cape Hatteras, 86, 147, 229, 294
Cape Hatteras Lifesaving Station, 158
Cape Hatteras National Seashore, 262
Cape Lookout Lighthouse, 207
Carl Gerhard, 148
Carolina Development Company, 261
Carpenter, Thomas, 89
Chanute, Annie Riddell James, 120
Chanute biplane of 1896, 12
Chanute, Charles, 14, 103, 120
Chanute, Octave, 14–15, 97, 153–54, 166, 178; background, 8, 119–20; death, 283; Indiana dunes experiments, 12–14, 100, 105; interest in flight, 9; memorials to, 284; 1901 visit to Outer Banks, 78–79, 82; 1902 visit to Outer Banks, 119, 124; 1903 visit to Outer Banks, 139, 153, 171, 172; pictured, 13, 55, 280; relationship with Herring, 100–101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 109, 122; relationship with Huffaker, 62, 65–66; relationship with Langley, 10, 64, 103, 116, 124; relationship with Spratt, 70–71, 116, 153; relationship with Wrights, 24, 53, 71–72, 96, 99–100, 136–37, 156, 194, 201–2, 203–4, 279–83, 284
Chanute-Herring multiwing of 1902, 122
Chanute-Huffaker glider of 1901, 66, 67, 68
Chanute-Lamson glider of 1902, 122
Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar, 233
Cheatham, Frank B., 264
Chicamacomico Lifesaving Station, 142, 146
Civil Air Patrol, 303
Cleveland, Grover, 16
Coastal Carolina Emergency Network, 294
Colington Island, 301
Combs, Harry, 197, 238, 312
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, 288
Core Banks, 207
Corolla, 142, 316
Cropsey, Nell, 15–16
Crouch, Tom, 18, 98
Crowther, James G., 18
Curlicue, 30–31, 32, 33, 110
Currituck Beach, 157, 186
Currituck Beach Lifesaving Station, 141, 142, 186
Currituck Beach Lighthouse, 158, 267
Curtiss, Glenn, 201, 205, 238, 252, 259, 267; exhibition team, 239, 240; Great Aerodrome trials, 274–75; patent suit brought by Wrights against, 258, 288; pictured, 275; relationship with Herring, 291;
Curtiss-Wright Company, 259
Daniels, Archie, 316
Daniels, John T., 139, 148, 150, 175, 199, 298–99, 316; death, 301; later years, 299–300; photo of first flight, 179–80; pictured, 140, 300; present at famous flights, 178, 179, 182, 187, 189; visits national memorial, 262
Daniels, Josephus, 300, 301
Dare County, 261, 313
Dare, Virginia, 242, 318
Da Vinci, Leonardo, 15
Davis, Dwight F., 263
Dayton, Ohio, 193, 322
Dayton-Wright Company, 259
Dean, Edward O., 187, 188, 189, 190, 295, 296, 297
Deery, Patrick, 157
Delagrange, Léon, 204
Deluged Civilization of the Caucasus Isthmus, The, 294
Diamond Shoals, 147
dirigibles versus airplanes, 52
Dismal Swamp Canal, 188
District of Columbia, 261
Dixie, 211
Doherty, Elwood, 274
Doodle-Bug, 288
Dos Passos, John, 312
Dosher, Joe, 25, 26, 29, 42, 161, 185, 186, 187, 315
Dough, Willie S., 57, 139, 148, 150, 176, 214, 298; pictured, 140; present at famous flights, 178, 187, 189; visits national memorial, 262
Drinkwater, Alpheus “Alf,” xii, 157, 178, 212, 298; background, 158–59; coverage of Moccasin, 159, 160–61; death, 305; first-flight story, 161, 186, 303; later years, 303–5; pictured, 160, 303; relationship with Wrights, 161; transmits 1908 dispatches, 214, 221, 225–26, 303–4
Drinkwater, Dorothy, 304
Earhart, Amelia, 46, 262
Early Birds, 300
Eastern Carolina Transportation Company, 243
Edison, Thomas, 83
Elizabeth City, 5, 51, 109, 163, 208, 243, 288, 308, 312
Ely, Eugene, 296
Essary, Fred, 229
Etheridge, Adam D., 55, 57, 139, 148, 150, 154, 298; caretaker of Wrights’ camp, 56; death, 301; later years, 299, 317; pictured, 300; present at famous flights, 178; visits national memorial, 262
Farman, Henri, 204
Fessenden, Helen, 89
Fessenden, Reginald, background, 83; birth, 83; continuous-wave theory, 84–85; death, 294; later years, 292–94; pictured, 90, 293; relationship with Willis Moore, 91–93; relationship with Wrights, 89–91, 94–95, 292; tenure with Weather Bureau, 85, 86, 91–93
Fessenden Memorial Public Service Award, 294
“First in Flight” license plate, 313
“First in Freedom” license plate, 313
First Flight Society, 266
Ford, Henry, 156, 294, 299–300
Fort Myer, Virginia, 94
Fort Raleigh, 243, 304, 308
14-bis, 203
Frost, Robert, 312
Furnas, Charlie, 210, 211, 227, 235, 317
Gardiner, Gilson, 228
Garros, Roland, 267
Gatling Flyer. See Old Turkey Buzzard
Gatling, James Henry, 7–8
Gatling, Richard, 7
Gilman, John A., 263
Glenn, John, 268
Glenn L. Martin Company, 258
Glennan, Keville, 187–88, 189, 190, 222, 226, 295, 296, 297
Gordon Bennett Trophy, 244
Grant, Charles C., 186–87, 226
Graveyard of the Atlantic, 141
Gray, Jim J., 186
Great Aerodrome, 167, 171, 175, 274, 275, 308
Great Dismal Swamp, 312
Greenfield Village, 300
Gridiron Dinner, 308
Griggs, Robert, pictured, 38
Gundlach, Ernst, 37
Hakluyt, Richard, 58
Hare, Jimmy, 223, 224
Harwood, Van Ness, 246, 298; pictured, 242
Hathaway, J. D., 241, 242
Hatteras Island, 146
Hattie Creef, 229
Hawthorn Hill, 259
Herring, Augustus, xii, 14, 65, 238, 282; attempts powered flight, 105–8; background, 102; birth, 102; death, 291; Indiana dunes experiments, 104, 105; interest in flight, 102; later years, 289–91; motorcycle business, 108, 109; 1902 visit to Outer Banks, 119, 121–22, 124; pictured, 101, 290; relationship with Chanute, 100–101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 109, 122; relationship with Curtiss, 291; relationship with Langley, 103, 124; relationship with Wrights, 101–2, 103, 109, 289–90; tenure at Smithsonian, 103
Herring, Bill, 292
Herring, Lillian Mullen, 104
Herring-Curtiss Company, 238, 291
Heuth, Allen R., 261, 263
Hines, Thomas, pictured, 38
Hockaday, Woody, 262
Hollowell, Margaret, 317, 318
Hoover, Herbert, 268, 304
Hoster, Bill, 216, 217, 218, 223, 225, 227, 228
Howard, Fred, 30, 124
Huffaker, Carrie Sue, 65
Huffaker, Edward, 53, 73, 75, 82, 96; background, 61; birth, 61; death, 289; interest in flight, 61–62; later years, 288–89; 1901 visit to Outer Banks, 59, 60, 82; observations on bird flight, 62–63; pictured, 55, 59, 79; relationship with Chanute, 62, 65–66; relationship with Langley, 64–65, 116; relationship with Wrights, 66–68, 79–80, 98, 156; tenure at Smithsonian, 64–65
Huffaker, Mary Ada, 289
Huffman, David, 312
Huffman Prairie, 195, 196, 197, 199, 204, 251, 269
Huffman, Torrence, 195, 197
Hunaudières, Les, 235, 236
Husting, Eugene, 102
Icarus, 267
International Aviation Tournament of 1910, 244
International Civil Aeronautics Conference, 261
Jockey’s Ridge, 141, 314, 315
Jockey’s Ridge State P
ark, 314
Johns, Jim, 315
Johnstone, Ralph, 240
Jones Hill Lifesaving Station. See Currituck Beach Lifesaving Station
Jones, Ora L., 154–55
Katydid, 12, 14, 15, 100
Keach, James, 312
Keach, Stacy, 312, 313
Kelly, Fred, xi
Kill Devil Hills, 45, 54, 147, 155, 197, 262, 313
Kill Devil Hills Lifesaving Station, 139, 142, 147, 148, 175, 179, 210, 315–16
Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association, 260–61, 307
Kill Devil Hills Monument National Memorial. See Wright Brothers National Memorial
Kindervater, William H., 263
Kitty Hawk, 25, 28, 32, 147, 313, 322
Kitty Hawk Lifesaving Station, 139, 142, 147, 149, 179, 315
Kitty Hawk Monument to the Wrights, 46, 319–21
Kitty Hawk Weather Bureau office, 124, 161, 182, 185, 186, 315
Kruckman, Arnold, 247
Kyzikes, 147–48
Lamson, Charles, 100, 122
Langley, Samuel, 8, 14, 22, 97, 105, 116, 164, 203, 275; attempts at powered flight, 167, 174–75; background, 10; coverage in press, 192–93; early experiments, 10–12; pictured, 13; relationship with Chanute, 10, 64, 103, 116, 124; relationship with Herring, 103, 124; relationship with Huffaker, 64–65, 116; relationship with Wrights, 124–25, 165–67
Lawson, John, 58
lift, mechanics of, 43
Lilienthal, David, 193–94
Lilienthal, Otto, 10, 20, 21–22, 43, 44, 102
Lindbergh, Charles, 267, 301; pictured 310
Little Kinnakeet Lifesaving Station, 142
Lockheed Corporation, 249
Long Point Lighthouse, 260, 305, 306, 308
Lost Colony, 242, 243
Lost Colony (drama), 295
Lou Willis, 109, 110, 119, 122, 127, 173, 209
Lougheed, Allan, 249
Lougheed, Malcolm, 249
Lougheed, Victor, 249–51
MacCracken, William P., Jr., 261
Manly, Charles, 167, 175
Manteo, 45, 163, 243, 308
Manteo telegraph office, 214
Marconi, Guglielmo, 84, 91, 93, 240
Marey, Etienne Jules, 20
Martins Point, 112, 150, 319
Mauretania, 309
McGowan, P. H., 223, 225, 228
McLean, Angus, 261, 262
Metropolis, 142
Midgett, Franklin, 110, 127, 173
Midgett, John Allen, 146
Midgett, Leroy, 146
Mirlo, 146, 147
Mitchell, John, 245
Mitchell (reporter), 246
Mobikes, 108, 109
Moccasin, 157, 158, 159, 160, 162, 178, 186
Montgomery, John, 250, 251
Moore, Chloe, 302
Moore, Harry P., 188–89, 190, 193, 295, 296–97
Moore, Johnny, 57, 151, 199; death, 302; later years, 150, 301–2; pictured, 301; present at famous flights, 178, 180–81; visits national memorial, 262, 302
Moore, Willis, 23, 91–93, 95; pictured, 92
Moriarty, Michael, 312
Mouillard, Louis-Pierre, 280–81, 282
Mozhaisky, Alexander E., 270, 273
Mullen, Lillian. See Herring, Lillian Mullen
Myers, Benjamin, 222, 226
Nags Head, 45, 142, 242, 243, 312, 313
Nags Head Lifesaving Station, 142
Nags Head Woods, 178
Nash, Ogden, 312
National Aeronautic Association, 46, 260, 262, 307
National Air and Space Museum, 162
National Electric Signaling Company, 93, 292
National Park Service, 26, 56, 57, 211, 260, 268, 308
Newton, Byron, 218, 221, 223, 225, 226, 230; background, 216, 297; describes local citizens, 216–17; later years, 297–98; pictured, 219
Norfolk Dispatch, 297
Norfolk Landmark, 189, 190
Norfolk Virginian, 187
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 187, 189–90, 205, 212, 222, 227, 295–96
Norfolk Weather Bureau office, 186, 187, 189, 222, 226, 295, 296
North Carolina Aviation Committee, 307
Nottingham, S. S., 222
Ocracoke, 163
Ogilvie, Alec, 243–45, 246, 248, 249, 252; pictured, 242
Old Turkey Buzzard, 7, 8
Oldfield, Barney, 155–56
“On Soaring Flight,” 62–63
“$1000 Beauty,” 67, 68
O’Neal, Benjamin W. “Uncle Benny,” 149, 176, 214
O’Neal, Oliver, 54
Oregon Inlet, 216
Oregon Inlet Lifesaving Station, 142, 148, 158
Orville and Wilbur (movie), 313
“Our Life in Camp at Kitty Hawk,” 110
Outer Banks lifesavers, xii, 139, 142, 143, 144–45
Outer Banks weather, 125, 197, 241
Palau, 309
Paraguay. See Kyzikes
Pau, France, 236
Payne, S. J., 149, 179, 192; pictured, 38
Pearse, Richard, 271, 273
Pénaud, Alphonse, 20
Peoria, 157
Perry, Israel, 29–30, 31, 32, 110, 255, 319
Phillips, M., 58
Poor, Alfred E., 264
Poyner Hill, 142
Progress in Flying Machines, 9–10
Pugh, Benjamin D., 148
Raby, Ormond, 93
Randolph, Stella, 272, 273
Rathbun, Richard, 21
Ray, 127
Redpath Lyceum Bureau, 131
Revenue Cutter Service, 147
Roanoke Island, 86, 163, 242, 243, 294, 308
Rodgers, Calbraith Perry, 267
Rogallo, Francis, 314–15
Rogers, Robert P., 264
Rolls, Charles, 244
Roosevelt, Alice, 159
Roosevelt, Franklin, 308
Roosevelt, Teddy, 92, 159
Root, Amos, 127, 200
Rose, Charlie, 207
Ruhl, Arthur, 223–24, 227, 230
Salley, D. Bruce, xii; background, 212–13; death, 298; later years, 298; 1908 visit to Outer Banks, 213–16, 217, 218, 221–22, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 230; 1911 visit to Outer Banks, 246
Sanderlin, Robert, pictured, 38
Sanderlin, Thomas, pictured, 38
Santos-Dumont, Alberto, 51, 52, 203, 269
Saunders, W. O., 260, 299
Science Museum of London, 276, 309
Selfridge, Thomas, 235, 236
Severn, Bennett, 307
Severn, Irene Tate, 46, 211, 307; pictured, 34
Short, Eustace, 244
Short, Oswald, 244
Simms Station. See Huffman Prairie
Smith, John Maynard, 16
Smithsonian Institution, 11, 21, 62, 124, 162, 192, 288; Great Aerodrome controversy, 274, 275–76, 308, 309
soaring, 164
“Some Aeronautical Experiments,” 96, 108
Southern Shores, 314
Sperry, Elmer, 252
Sperry, Lawrence “Gyro,” 251–52
Spratt, George, 53, 66, 67, 75, 98; background, 69; death, 287; interest in flight, 69–70; 1901 visit to Outer Banks, 60, 72, 82; 1902 visit to Outer Banks, 117, 125; 1903 visit to Outer Banks, 139, 152–53, 171, 172; observations on bird flight, 70; pictured, 71; relationship with Chanute, 70–71; relationship with Wrights, 68, 72–73, 116–17, 156, 284–85
Spratt, George G., 286, 287–88; pictured as child, 71
Spratt glider of 1908, 286
Spratt powered biplane of 1934, 286–87
Stephens, William, 58
Stick, David, 141
Stick, Frank, 261
Submarine Signal Company, 292
Swindell, Lillie, 154, 316–17
Taft, William Howard, 95, 237
Tate, Addie, 33–34, 36, 45–46; pictured, 34
Tate, Bill, 25, 28–29, 54, 56, 96, 178, 211, 257, 322; background, 26; death, 307; describ
ed, 35, 46; establishes Kitty Hawk monument, 319; first meeting with Wilbur, 33–35; helps with gliders, 40, 45; later years, 305, 306, 307; misses famous flights, 150–51; moves to Martins Point, 112, 150; pictured, 34, 305; relationship with Orville, 35, 260, 305, 308; visits national memorial, 262
Tate, Dan, xii, 111, 115, 119, 124, 126, 168, 169, 172; helps construct camp, 54, 164; helps with gliders, 48, 113, 114; pictured, 79, 113, 126; relationship with Wrights, 112, 151–52
Tate, Elijah, 211, 212, 229, 247, 307
Tate, Irene. See Severn, Irene Tate
Tate, Lewis, 211, 212, 247
Tate, Pauline. See Woodard, Pauline Tate
Tate, Tom, 46–48, 112, 212, 248; pictured, 47
Taylor, Charlie, 132–33, 134, 153, 172, 174, 195, 235
Tillett, Avery B. L., 149, 215
Tranquil House, 213, 216, 223, 226, 229
Trowbridge, John, 6
Twiddy, Doug, 315–16
United Brethren Church, 20
United States Army Quartermaster Corps, 263
United States Bureau of Lighthouses, 305
United States Coast Guard, 147, 299
United States Department of Agriculture, 85
United States Lifesaving Service, xii, 141, 147, 159
United States Signal Service, 158
United States Submarine Service, 157
United States Weather Bureau, 23, 85, 91, 92, 93, 95, 159
USS Birmingham, 296
USS Huron, 142
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 239
Ward, Jesse E., 139, 148, 221; pictured, 140
Ward, Otto C., 148
Warren, Lindsay, 260, 262
Washington, George, 61
Weir Point, 86
Wenham, Francis Herbert, 70
Westcott, Robert L., 148, 149–50, 175, 179, 192
Western Society of Engineers, 96, 108, 279
Western Union, 159
Westinghouse, George, 83
Whitehead, Gustave, 271–72, 273
Wilcox, Jim, 16
Williamson, W. H., 13
Willis, Taylor, and Mafera, 264
Wilson, James, 93
Wilson, Woodrow, 95, 298, 301 wing warping, 22–23, 79, 80, 82, 118, 238
Wood, Frank B., 155–56
Woodard, Elmer, Jr., 26, 56, 260, 306, 308, 319
Woodard, Elmer, Sr., 307
Woodard, Pauline Tate, 46, 211, 307; pictured, 34
World’s Columbian Exposition, 84
Wright, Horace “Buster,” 243, 247–48; pictured, 242, 248
Wright, Katharine, 19, 114, 133, 177, 194, 216, 236, 237, 244
Wright, Lorin, 177, 193, 275; background, 114–15; 1902 visit to Outer Banks, 114, 115, 118, 123, 124; 1911 visit to Outer Banks, 243, 246, 248; pictured, 115, 242
Wright, Milton, 19, 177, 197, 257, 258
Wright, Orville, xi, 84; birth, 18; conceives movable rudder, 118–19; death, 301, 310; described, 19; first glides, 113; gets typhoid, 20, 255; injured in crash, 236; 1908 flights at Fort Myer, 235; 1909 flights at Fort Myer, 236; record glides of 1911, 249; relationship with Bill Tate, 35, 260, 305, 308; sends 1903 Flyer to England, 276; visits national memorial, 260, 261–63, 267–68, 307–8