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Was in Philadelphia
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Otto Lithenthal worked on flying a Biplane which was pretty efficient
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Built by Sir George Cayley
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The Wright Brothers had the first sustained powered flight.
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Alberto Santos Dumont was the first to fly in Europe
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Curtis and Alexander Gram bell worked together and founded it for people
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Created flight schools for people
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Ralph Pulitzer started Flight races started and helped a/c's become more advanced and better.
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Was the first women to get her license and the first commercial pilot
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A lot of Countries formed a flyng service
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People started building fighter planes and had a big increase in production
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Fighters started developing
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The AirMail was used for people who didn't got mail last
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175,00 US workers lost jobs and aviation cut back 95%
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After ww1 the demand for air crafts significantly dropped by 85%, causing a screeching halt to aviation.
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Women where now allowed to fly in air races which is a very small step for equality for women.
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The u.s. kept supplies going back and forth from Germany to the U.S. to help in the war.
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It was regulated system and the railroad didn't like it but had to go with it because it was working out well
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Basic traffic rules for commercial aviation
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He was the one who was responsible for hundreds of airports being built and was also the start of production
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Was the first women to fly over the Atlantic while being a passenger
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Added even more routes and charged people per seat
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The fist jet flight was in Germany.
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developed military improvement and air cops expanchion
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They kept some pilots here in the US just in case of an emergency that could happen in the US
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Air Craft production drastically increased again after pearl harbor.
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On December 7, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, using bombers, torpedo bombers and midget submarines
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Fist raid against Berlin, targeted resource bombing them to cut of Germany.
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also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region.
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Was the fist atomic bomb conducted by the united states.
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Japan is preparing to mark the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb that was dropped on the nation, on Aug. 6, 1945
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The U.S. air force was born with the passage of the national security act.
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-France requested assistance to fight the war spread of communism.
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-French pulled out colonies by 57
-Vietnam divided at the 17th parallel. -Eisenhower sent troops to organize. -
August 7th congress passes "Toking gulf resolution".
Strategic bombing
operation rolling thunder lasted 3 years.
More air combat -
-President Nixon promised a withdraw from Vietnam.
-Operation Linebacker
-ground Troops out by 1972
