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Augustus Moore Herring (August 3, 1867 – July 17, 1926) was an American aviation pioneer, who sometimes is claimed by Michigan promoters to be the first true aviator of a motorized heavier-than-air aircraft.
One glider—the Chanute Herring two-surface machine—was the most advanced of all pre-Wright designs. Chanute gave the models of his gliders (pictured below) to the Smithsonian in 1909. In this photo, Augustus Moore Herring prepares to launch himself in his 1897 version of Octave Chanute's biplane glider.
In 1896 Augustus Moore Herring applied for what was possibly the earliest patent of its type in the country, a United States Patent for a man-supporting, heavier-than-air, motorized, controllable, "flying machine".
3 de nov. de 2018 · Learn about the life and achievements of Augustus Moore Herring, one of the USA's most important aviation pioneers and a key link between the Wrights and other aeronauts. He designed and flew a weight-shift glider with a compressed air motor in 1898, and may have flown before the Wrights, but his patent was rejected and his claims disputed.
7 de ene. de 2011 · After working under another pioneering aviator, Octave Chanute, with whom he had carried out a number of successful gliding experiments, Augustus Moore Herring found independent backing and constructed a biplane hang glider of sorts in 1898, which included a small compressed-air engine.
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (1909 – 1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer originally founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Augustus Moore Herring in Hammondsport, New York. After significant commercial success in its first decades, it merged with the Wright Aeronautical to form Curtiss-Wright Corporation. History.
2 de may. de 2012 · American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 12700 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 200 Reston, VA 20191-5807 703.264.7500
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