By:Phillip S' Hart

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Flying Free

• ByPhillip S. Hart
• Forward byReeve Lindbergh

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Presented By

• Kyle Arnold
• Joey Housos
• Justin Runner
• Morgan Traeger

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The Early Years

• Lernardo Da Vinci invented the plane.
• The Montgolfier brothers hot air balloon rose
  6,000 feet above France.
• In 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina the Wright
  brothers made the first powered airplane.

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Bessie Colemen

• Bessie Coleman was the first African American
  female pilot.
• She was the first African American to earn her
  International Pilots license.

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William J. Powell

• He was the first black lieutenant in the army.
• Powell thought flying was a wave of the future.

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James Herman Banning

• Films of World War II combat planes inspired
  Banning to learn to fly.
• Banning became the first black pilot to be
  licensed in America.

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Hubert F. Julian

• Hubert F. Julian was known as The Black Eagle.
• He lived in Harlem and became known well in New
  York because of his flying.

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The Chicago Flyers

• Harold Hurd was in the first all-black class.
• The Curtiss -Wright Aeronautics School trained
  many black flyers.

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The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

• Benjamin O. Davis was the lieutenant and
  commander of World War II.
• President Truman meets with some of the political
  leaders.

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The Modern Aviators and Black Flyers

• Guion Bluford was the first black man in space.
• Perry H. Young Jr. is the helicopter pilot in
  World War II.
• Black military pilots flew during the Korean War
  and the Vietnam War.

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Review

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• 3.5Awesome
• 4The best book ever