Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt entered the U.S. Air Force in 1992, earning her commission as a distinguished graduate of the Air Force ROTC program. Leavitt was initially denied her request to fly the ...

Amelia Earhart was awarded this medal in recognition of her transatlantic flight in June 1928. With that flight Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, though she was merely a ...

D2.His.16.6-8. Organize applicable evidence into a coherent argument about the past.

Begun in 1949, the J71 was the first turbojet wholly developed by Allison, drawing on the company's technology base from its uprating of the J33 and J35 turbojets, and development of the T38 and T40 ...

Mitsubishi was the first and largest series producer of Japanese engines during World War II, with a 1937 Pratt & Whitney arrangement possibly contributing to this success. Its Kinsei (Golden Star) ...

The Challenger engine, which followed the water cooled Curtiss V-8 OX-5 engine that powered the World War I JN-4 “Jenny” trainer aircraft, was designed as a lower-cost, medium-power engine ...

During World War II, the Mitsubishi Army Type 1, Ha 31 Model 21 (Ha 102) powered the Mitsubishi Ki-46-II/II KAI, Army Type 100 command reconnaissance aircraft (Allied Code Name DINAH 2), Kawasaki ...

This engine was a double form of the Z9, which had nine cylinders. Salmson aircraft engines that were produced in France starting in 1913 by the Societe des Moteurs Salmson in Billancourt, Sein were ...

Designed in 1930, the 14-cylinder, 597 kW (800 hp) Twin Wasp engine was first used in the Martin 130 China Clipper that inaugurated trans-Pacific commercial operations in 1935. United Air Lines had ...

German researcher Otto Lutz introduced the swing-piston concept about 1923. Intended primarily as a high pressure compressor or gas generator for relatively high power gas turbine engines for ...

This engine was designed by Harold E. Morehouse, whose first engine was built by the Steel Products Engineering Company of Springfield, Ohio in 1923; and developed 14.9 kW (20 hp). It was used for ...