A report on John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
Canadian aviation pioneer and the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1947 to 1952.
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Aerial Experiment Association
4 linksCanadian-American aeronautical research group formed on 30 September 1907, under the leadership of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.
Canadian-American aeronautical research group formed on 30 September 1907, under the leadership of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.
The AEA came into being when John Alexander Douglas McCurdy and his friend Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin, two recent engineering graduates of the University of Toronto, decided to spend the summer in Baddeck, Nova Scotia.
Frederick Walker Baldwin
4 linksHydrofoil and aviation pioneer and partner of the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
Hydrofoil and aviation pioneer and partner of the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
In 1906, he graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in electrical and mechanical engineering, and left for Baddeck, Nova Scotia, that summer to visit the home of his college friend Douglas McCurdy and the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
Alexander Graham Bell
4 linksScottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
The AEA was headed by Bell and the founding members were four young men: American Glenn H. Curtiss, a motorcycle manufacturer at the time and who held the title "world's fastest man", having ridden his self-constructed motor bicycle around in the shortest time, and who was later awarded the Scientific American Trophy for the first official one-kilometre flight in the Western hemisphere, and who later became a world-renowned airplane manufacturer; Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, an official observer from the U.S. Federal government and one of the few people in the army who believed that aviation was the future; Frederick W. Baldwin, the first Canadian and first British subject to pilot a public flight in Hammondsport, New York; and J. A. D. McCurdy–Baldwin and McCurdy being new engineering graduates from the University of Toronto.
AEA Silver Dart
3 linksDerivative of an early aircraft built by a Canadian/U.S. team, which after many successful flights in Hammondsport, New York, earlier in 1908, was dismantled and shipped to Baddeck, Nova Scotia.
Derivative of an early aircraft built by a Canadian/U.S. team, which after many successful flights in Hammondsport, New York, earlier in 1908, was dismantled and shipped to Baddeck, Nova Scotia.
The aircraft was piloted by one of its designers, Douglas McCurdy.
Glenn Curtiss
2 linksAmerican aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry.
American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry.
During the 1909–1910 period, Curtiss employed a number of demonstration pilots, including Eugene Ely, Charles K. Hamilton, J.A.D. McCurdy, Augustus Post, and Hugh Robinson.
St. Andrew's College, Aurora
0 linksIndependent boarding and day school founded in 1899 and located in Aurora, Ontario, Canada.
Independent boarding and day school founded in 1899 and located in Aurora, Ontario, Canada.
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy - Member of the Aerial Experiment Association, inventor of the aileron, and the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1947–1952).
Arthur Williams McCurdy
0 linksCanadian businessman, inventor and astronomer.
Canadian businessman, inventor and astronomer.
He was the father of the pioneering aviator John Alexander Douglas McCurdy.
Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame
1 linksCanada's Aviation Hall of Fame, based in the Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada, commemorates and honours those whose accomplishments in aviation contributed so much to Canada's development as a nation.
Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame, based in the Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada, commemorates and honours those whose accomplishments in aviation contributed so much to Canada's development as a nation.
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy (1974)
Long Branch Aerodrome
0 linksAirfield located west of Toronto, Ontario and just east of Port Credit, now Mississauga, and was Canada's first aerodrome.
Airfield located west of Toronto, Ontario and just east of Port Credit, now Mississauga, and was Canada's first aerodrome.
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, the first person to fly an airplane in the British Empire, was hired as the airport's first manager.
Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
0 linksLocated at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, honoured Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to society in science and engineering.
Located at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, honoured Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to society in science and engineering.
John A.D. McCurdy (1886–1961)