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The first supersonic flight: was achieved Oct 14, 1947 by Capt. later Brigadier Charles Chuck Elwood Yeager

The first supersonic flight: was achieved Oct 14, 1947 by Capt. later Brigadier Charles Chuck Elwood Yeager source: Pixabay Supersonic Flight The first supersonic flight was achieved Oct 14, 1947 by Capt later Brigadier General) Charles Chuck Elwood Yeager, USAF retired (b Feb 13, 1923). over Edwards Air Force Base. Muroc, Calif in a US Bell XS-1 rocket plane (Glamorous Glennis), with Mach 1.015 (670 mph) at an altitude of 42,000 ft. Largest and Smallest Planes The aircraft with the largest wing span ever constructed was Howard R. Hughes' H.2 Hercules flying boat, which rose 70 ft into the air in a test run of 1,000 yd off Long Beach Harbor, Calif on Nov 2, 1947. The 8-engined 213-ton aircraft had a wing span of 320 n and a length of 219 ft.It never flew again. The craft cost $40 million, and was piloted by Howard Hughes himself on its one run .It was not scrapped until Apr 1976. The highest recorded gross takeoff weight of any aircraft has been 425 lons in the c...

History Of Aircraft And Manufactures Flights on Dec 17, 1903

History Of Aircraft And Manufactures Flights on Dec 17, 1903 AIRCRAFT Earliest Flights The first controlled and sustained power-driven flight occurred Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, NC at 10:35 am on Dec 17, 1903, when Orville Wright (1871-1948) flew the 12-hp chain-driven Flyer I at an speed of 30 mph, a ground speed of 6.8 mph and an altitude of 8-12 ft for 12 sec, watched by his brother Wilbur (1867-1912), 3 life-savers and 2 others. Both brothers, from Dayton, Ohio, were bachelors because, Orville put it, they had not the means to "support a wife as well as an airplane." The Flyer is now in the National Air and Space Museum or the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. The first hop by a man-carrying airplane entirely under its own power was made when Clement Ader (1841-1925) of France flew in his Eole for about 164 ft at Armainvilliers, France, on Oct 9, 1890. Richard William Pearce (1877-1953) flew for at least 50 yd along the Main Waitohi Road, South Canterbury, New ...

Importance Of Road Transport In The World (The first municipal motor bus service )

Importance Of Road Transport In The World : The first municipal motor bus service Buses The first municipal motor bus service was inaugurated on Apr 12,1903 between the Eastbourne railway station and Meads, East Sussex, in England . A steam-powered bus named Royal Patent ran between Gloucester and Cheltenham, England, for 4 months in 1831. The longest regularly scheduled bus route is Greyhound's "Super cruise Miami-to-San Francisco route over 3,240 miles in 81 hours 50 mun (average speed of travel 39.59 mph). The total Greyhound fleet numbers 5,500 buses. The longest buses are the 12-ton, 76-ft-long articulated buses, with 121 passenger seats and room for an additional 66 "strap-hangers," built by the Wayne Corporation of Richmond, Ind for use in the Middle East. Largest Dump Truck The largest dump truck is the Terex Titan 33-19 manufactured by the Terex Division of the General Motors Corp. It has a loaded weight of 604.7 tons and a capacity of 350 tons. When unlo...

Most Expensive Car In The World :The greatest price paid

Most Expensive Car In The World : The greatest price paid Most Expensive Used Cars The greatest price paid for a used car is $421,040 for a 1936 Mercedes Benz Roadster from the M. L. Cohn collection by a telephone bidder in Monaco at Christie's sale Feb 25, 1979 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The greatest collection of vintage cars is the William F. Harrah Collection of 1,700, estimated to be worth more than $4 million in Reno,Nev. Mr Harsh was still looking for a Chalmers-Detroit 1909 Tourabout, an Owen car of 1910-12, and a Nevada Truck of 1915 when he died in 1978. Most Expensive Special Cars The most expensive car ever built is the Presidential 1969 Lincoln Continental Executive delivered to the US Secret Service on Oct 14, 1968. It has an overall length of 21 ft 6.3 in with a 13-ft-4-in wheelbase and, with the addition of 2 tons of armor plate, weighs 12,000 lbs. The cost for research, development and manufacture was estimated at $500,000 per annum, b...

Cars In The World List : History(Earliest Gasoline-Driven Cars)

Cars In The World List : History ( Earliest Gasoline-Driven Cars) ROAD VEHICLES Before the widespread use of tarred road surfaces from 1845 coach-riding was slow and hazardous. The zenith in speed was reached on July 13, 1888, when J. Selby, Esq, drove the "Old Times" coach 108 miles from London to Brighton and back with 8 teams and 14 changes in 7 hours 50 min to average 13.79 mph. Four-horse carriages could maintain a speed of 21 1/2 mph for nearly an hour. CARS Most Cars In 1978 it was estimated that in the US 138 million drivers drove 147 million vehicles 1,480,000 million miles, or 206.2 miles per week per driver. Earliest Automobiles The costliest car of which there is record is a 2-ft-long steam-powered model, constructed by Ferdinand Verbiest (d 1687), a Belgian Jesuit priest, which he described in his Astronomia Europaea. His 1668 model was possibly inspired either by Giovanni Branca's description of a steam turbine published in 1629, or by writings on "fi...

Powerful Ships In The World :Largest Battleships

Powerful Ships In The World : Largest Battleships Fastest Pacific Crossing The Fastest crossing of the Pacific Ocean (4,840 nautical miles) was 6 days 1 hour 27 min by the containership Sea-Land Commerce (50,315 tons) from Yokohama, Japan to Long Beach, Calif in 1973, at an average speed of 33.27 knots (38.31 mph). Southernmost Sail The Farthest south ever reached by a ship was achieved on Feb is 15, 1912, when the Frame reached latitude 78° 41' S, off the Antarctic cost. Largest Passenger Liner The largest liner afloat and longest liner ever built is the Norway of 63,379 tons and 1,035 ft in length. She was built as the France in 1961 and renamed after purchase in June 1979 by Knut Kloster of Norway . Her second maiden voyage was from Southampton on May 7, 1980. The Queen Elizabeth 2 set a "turn-around" record of 8 hours 3 min in NYC on May 17, 1972. In her 1980 World Cruise, the price of her major site was $212,700 each. The england Queen Elizabeth, no longer afloat, ...

Different Types Of Ships Found In The World ,1838

Different Types Of Ships Found In The World ,1838 SHIPS Evidence of seafaring between the Greek mainland and the island of Melos to trade obsidian c.7250 BC was published in 1971. Oars found in bogs at Magle Mose, Sjaelland, Denmark, and Star Carr, North Yorkshire, England, have been dated to the 8th millennium Bc. The oldest surviving boat is the 142-ft-long 40-ton Nile boat buried near the Great Pyramid of Khufu, Egypt, c. 2515 BC, and now reassembled. The oldest shipwreck ever found is one of a Cycladic trading vessel located off the islet of Dhokos, near the Greek island of Hydra reported in May 1975 and dated to 2450 BC 250. Earliest Power Vessels Propulsion by steam engine was first achieved when in 1783 the Marquiz Jouffroy d'Abbans ascended a reach of the Saône River near Lyons,France in the 180-ton paddle steamer Pyroscaphe. The tug Charlotte Dundas was the first successful power-driven vessel. She was a paddlewheel steamer built in Scotland in 1801-02 b...

FISHES (PISCES, BRADYODONTI, SELACHII AND MARSIPOLI)

FISHES (PISCES, BRADYODONTI, SELACHII AND MARSIPOLI) Largest Fresh-water Fishes The largest fish which spends its whole life in fresh or brackish water is the rare Pa Beuk or Pla Buk (Pangasianodon gigas), a giant catfish found in the Mekong River of Laos and Thailand. Adult males average 8 n in length and weigh about 360 lb. This size was exceeded by the European catfish or wels (Silurus glanis). In the 19th century lengths of up to 15 ft and weights up to 720 lb were reported for Russian specimens, but today anything over 6 ft and 200 lb is considered large. The arapaima (Arapaima glanis), also called the pirarucu, found in the Amazon and other South American rivers and often claimed to be the largest fresh-water fish, averages 6 and 150 lb. The largest "authentically recorded" measured 8 ft 1% in and weighed 325 lb. It was caught in the Rio Negro,Brazil, in 1836. In Sept 1978 a Nile perch (Lates niloticus) weighing 416 lb was netted in the eastern part of Lake Victoria, K...

AMPHIBIANS (AMPHIBIA) (Salamanders, toads, frogs, newts, caecilians, etc.)

AMPHIBIANS (AMPHIBIA) (Salamanders, toads, frogs, newts, caecilians, etc.) Largest Amphibian The largest species of amphibian is the Chinese giant salamander (Megalobatrachus davidianus), which lives in the cold mountain stream and marshy areas of northeastern central and southern China. The average adult measures 39 in in total length and weighs 24 to 28 lb. One huge individual collected in Kweichow (Guizhou) Province in southern China in the early 1920's measured 5 ft in total length and weighed nearly 100 Ib. The Japanese giant salamander (Megalobatrachus japonicus) is slightly smaller, but one captive specimen weighed 88 lb when alive and 100 lb after death, the body having absorbed water from the aquarium. Largest Newt The largest newt is the pleurodele or ribbed newt (Pleurodeles waltl). found in Morocco and on the Iberian Peninsula. Specimens measuring up to 15.74 in in total length and weighing over 1 lb have been reliably reported. Largest Frog The largest known frog is t...