| DREAMS OF FLIGHT |
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| 1903-2003 |
| 100 Years of Imaginations Soaring! |
| CHECK OUT THE LINKS BELOW FOR MORE FLIGHT HISTORY! |
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| Frenchman Louis Bleriot flies his monoplane across the English Channel- July 25, 1909 |
| Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid propellant rocket (Auburn, Mass. March 16, 1926) |
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| Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic May 20-21, 1927 |
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| Amelia Earhart crosses the Atlantic May 20, 1932 |
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| Igor Sikorsky of Russia First practical helicopter takes flight May 6, 1941 |
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| Tuskegee Airmen Earn Their Wings March 7, 1942 |
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| Charles "Chuck" Yeager breaks the sound barrier October 14, 1947 |
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| Yuri Gagarin First Human to Orbit the Earth April 12, 1961 |
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| Neil Armstrong First Human to Walk on the Moon July 20, 1969 |
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| November 2, 2000: First International Space Station Becomes Operational US Commander Bill Shephard, Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri Gidzenko and Russian Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev |
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| Click on the BEAR to read the poems that were written by Elementary Aviators from our Dreams of Flight Team! |
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| Bessie Coleman Getting her "wings" in 1918, she became the first African American female pilot. |
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| Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier Invented the hot air balloon June of 1783. |
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| Blanche Stuart Scott, first U. S. woman to solo in aplane became known as the first woman stunt flier, officially in 1912. |
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| Jean Pierre Fran�ois Blanchard was best known for his many pioneering balloon flights in and around 1793. |
| Beryl Markham, a pioneer aviator. She was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from London to North America in 1936. |
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