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I really have not got a clue, there are just to many possible answers.
The answer is the Boeing 200/221/ both of which were converted into the 221A Monomail. The 200 was also designated the Y1C-18 for Army trials.
Technically advanced for its time it was the forerunner of the B247. Both examples flew for United Airlines which was formed out of Boeing Air Transport when airframe manufacturers and airlines were separated. They both were then sold to Wyoming Air Service with which one crashed.
For all its new technology, the aircraft had a open cockpit and suffered from a poor engine.
New question: This pioneer pilot was unfortunate in so much as their most spectacular achievement was overshadowed in their own country and the countries in which the achievement was conducted by something even more newsworthy.
Igor Sikorsky developed the first 4 engined aircraft, but it was overshadowed by ww1.
Thats just a guess tog t the ball rolling.
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Slightly before that and it was a particular feat.
There was Richard Peirce overshadowed by the Wright brothers. In fact there were alot of powered flights around that time perior (late 1903 early 1904) overshadowed by the Wright brothers.
No, that's too early. In a short aviation career this person achieved two distinctive "firsts"
How about Adolphe Pegoud, the first ace and often though to be the first man to do a looping.
Not Adolphe. Go back to the first clue and note the number of countries .
Eduardo Bradley crossed the Andean mountain range in a coal gas Aerostat.
Argentinean who started his trip in Chile.
Broke an altitude record (8100m) and the first to cross the mountain range by air.
How was his crossing overshadowed?
Happened in the middle of WW1. who wants to know about some looney in a balloon when your house is being bombed?
But that's the point. By the middle of WW1 the war was an everyday disaster. This overshadowing was on a different scale
Im not entirely sure.
The only things i can think of is the battle of somme.
Is the rest of my answer right though?
Forget WW1. This person had 2 distinct firsts, the second of which was the one which was dramatically overshadowed.
In addition to the two "firsts" which became "official" firsts, this person had two "darker" firsts -one most historians agree to, the other totally undeniable. All this person's exploits took place in a very short period of time and were totally divorced from their previous work.
Well youve got me stumped.
This person and one other made an extremely unfortunate splash
The only one i can think of is Amelia Earhart. But she was 1930's not 1910's
Ooohh James H. Doolittle. He managed to overshadow his own achievement with his Doolittle raids. Which he considered a failure (But was kind of a success in that it boosted the morale of the Americans and proved to the Japanese that nowhere was safe for them) His acheivments were A solo crossing of continental United States in a DH-4 in under 24 hours. The first outside loop. And the first completley instrument only flight.
Its a little outside the timeframe though.
Harriet Quimby is my guess. She was a screenwriter. She was the first US woman to earn a pilots license, in 1911. In 1912 she became the first woman to fly across the English Channel, but her deed was overshadowed by the Titanic sinking the day before. The "splash" you mentioned was how she died...two months after her channel flight, she was in Boston at a flying meet. Her Bleriot monoplane lurched forward and threw her and her passenger out....they fell to their deaths, but the plane landed itself in the mud
F-8fanatic has it. She was also the first recorded woman to pilot an aircraft at night and it is thought she was the first women to die in an aircraft accident (as opposed to a flying accident) but certainly the first woman pilot to die. She and her passenger were not wearing seat belts. Her Bleriot XI was eventually restored, is in flying condition and is still on the FAA register as N6009. It is displayed at the Rhinebeck Museum, Rhinebeck NY.
Quimby claimed to have been born in California in 1884. Her family had moved there from Michigan in 1880 but Branch County, Michigan records show she was born there in 1875.
Stunning looking she was signed as the face of Vin Fiz grape soda, made by the Armour Meat Packing
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I should have added that Harriet's aviation career lasted just 11 months.
PhilB Stunning looking she, was signed as the face of Vin Fiz grape soda
Stunning looking she, was signed as the face of Vin Fiz grape soda
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No comment on the Mossie bit!! 30 years ago I was involved with setting up the Manchester Air and Space Museum and we had a number of photos of ATA pilots in uniform and in civvies. There were some really good looking girls- some from well off and aristocratic families, others from very ordinary backgrounds.
Whatever they looked like they were all great girls and, as all the aircraft they flew had to be flown under visual flight rules and all were unarmed, they were at risk from any patrolling Luftwaffe aircraft.
OK, this plane was designed and built with an engine that put out less power than many riding lawn mowers. It was not built as a military aircraft, but did end up being ordered by a military air force. Only one was built. Strangele enough, the plane was kept in service for 7 years with that air force, but it barely ever flew. Most of that air force's pilots could not even get the airplane off the ground and into flight!!
Since nobodys actually posted anything im going to get the ball rolling with an answer i know is wrong.
The Wright Model A
How about the Brik, a Dutch aicraft made by Marinus van der Meel. It was a one off and it was not a succes.
Not the Brik, it was powered by a Gnome rotary of 50 horsepower....the plane I am looking for was powered by an engine that had less than a third of that power. Remember also that the plane I am looking for was barely able to get off the ground, whereas the Brik was actually an improved version of the Farman biplane.
mmhh, second try. The Santo-Dumont Demoiselle. It had a tiny engine, the pliot could not weight more than 60kg (according to some sources).
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