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Committee Purpose: To help the AIAA San Francisco Section celebrate the 100th anniversary of powered flight in 2003. To organize meetings, events, forums etc. to create public awareness of the event and aerospace history in general. To offer assistance to the National AIAA in their efforts to celebrate the Evolution of Flight.

 

Members:

Stephen M. Jaeger, Director

Norman Bergrun

 


17 December 1903

 

 

 

 

For once you have tasted flight,
You will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward."

-Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

(Goddard's rocket)


Audio Interviews

The San Francisco Section is interviewing the Bay Area pioneers of the Aerospace Century.

 

 

California Aviation History

The compilation of events in California aerospace history. Incomplete

 


Aviation History Links:

AIAA Evolution of Flight

The AIAA national site. Check out the history of aeronautics in other countries.

Wright Flyer Project

For almost twenty years, members of the AIAA Los Angeles Section have worked to build a flying replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer. In 1999, they tested a full-scale wind tunnel model at the NASA Ames 40- by 80-Foot Wind Tunnel.

FirstFlight

 The premier site for all that's Wright.

NASA Ames History Project

An ongoing project to document the history of NASA's second oldest laboratory.

Ames Digital Library/Aeronautics

Lots of pictures: USS Macon and "pre-bridge" San Francisco.

NASA Image Exchange (NIX)

An excellent search engine for any space, aircraft or NASA related photo.

NASA

More history stuff. (What can I say? I work at NASA.)


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