Dear viney,
Here are the answers to your questions:
1. The Wright Brothers originally built only three "Wright Flyer"
planes: "Wright Flyer 1" (1903); "Wright Flyer 2" (1904); "Wright
Flyer 3" (1905, rebuilt after a crash landing the same year). After
those three first Wright planes, the following planes got different
names, beginning with "Model A" in 1907. These models are often
incorrectly referred to as "Flyer A", "Flyer B", and the like.
The plane the Wrights delivered to the US Army in 1909 was an upgraded
Model A, nevertheless it is commonly known as "Wright Military Flyer".
Officially, it was named "Signal Corps Airplane No. 1" and formally
accepted on 2 August 1909.
2. A concrete example for the materials stealth planes are made of:
The F-117A Stealth Fighter is mainly constructed of aluminum, with
titanium for areas of the engine and exhaust systems. The outer
surface of the aircraft is coated with a radar-absorbent material
(RAM) that contains carbonyl iron ferrite (special paint using this
material is known as "iron ball" paint).
3. Currently, no successor for the Concorde is in sight. Mr. Kieran
Daly, editor of the Internet news service Air Transport Intelligence,
gave the following statement to Tiscali Technology News on 25 October
2003:
"I don't think you will see a 'son of Concorde' inside 20 years, and
maybe not for even longer. Only two companies, America's Boeing and
Europe's Airbus, could conceivably create a new supersonic passenger
airliner. Airbus has its hands full at the moment with its superjumbo
A380 project and that's taking up all its time. Creating a Concorde
successor is something potentially for Boeing to look at but they have
not been talking about it very much."
The European Aircraft Builder EADS has recently been playing with the
idea of constructing a supersonic airliner in cooperation with
Japanese companies; however, no concrete project exists.
4. The first woman in the world to receive an official pilot license
was Raymonde de Laroche. She got her license, issued by the Aero Club
of France, on 8 March 1910.
5.The absolutely very first military air force was the balloon corps
of the French Army, the "Aérostiers". This force had been formed as
the Compagnie d'Aéronautiers on March 29, 1794.
However, the world's first air force to use heavier-than-air planes
was the the Aeronautical Division of the Office of the Chief Signal
Officer of the U.S. Army, formed on 1 July 1907.
Sources:
Women in Aviation: Some Notable Women In Aviation History
http://www.wai.org/resources/history.cfm
ThinkQuest Library: A Timeline of the History of Women in Aviation
http://library.thinkquest.org/21229/timeline.htm
The Media Drome: The Barnstorming Belles
http://www.themediadrome.com/content/articles/history_articles/barnstorming_belles.htm
U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission: Military Use of Balloons During
the Napoleonic Era
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Lighter_than_air/Napoleon's_wars/LTA3.htm
U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission: The First Military Flyer
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Wright_Bros/Military_Flyer/WR11.htm
Balloons - a Background, by Marvin Schultz
http://www.custom.ab.ca/Balloon/backgrnd.htm
CNN Daily Almanac: July 1
http://www.cnn.com/almanac/9807/01/
Wright Bros. Aeroplane Co.: Wright Airplanes
http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/Just%20the%20Facts/wright1.htm
Venik's Aviation: How "stealth" is achieved on F-117A
http://www.aeronautics.ru/f117a.htm#RAM
Air Force Technology: F-117A Nighthawk
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/f117/
Tiscali Technology News: Concorde successor 'years away'
http://www.screaming.net/cgi-bin/news/newswire.cgi/news/pa/2003/10/25/technology/concordesuccessoryearsaway.html&template=/technology/templates/pa/technology_news_story.html
Manager-Magazin: Concorde-Nachfolger geplant
http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/0,2828,274343,00.html
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Regards,
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