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AEA Silver Dart - airplanes
AEA Silver Dart
4) was a derivative of an early aircraft built by a Canadian-U.S. team, which after many successful flights in Hammondsport, New York, earlier in 1909, was dismantled and shipped to Baddeck, Nova Scotia. It was flown off the ice of Baddeck Bay, a sub-basin of Bras d'Or Lake, on 23 February 1909, making it the first controlled powered flight in Canada. The aircraft was piloted by one of its designers, John McCurdy.
* 1909 AEA Silver Dart reproduction
* 1910 Curtiss Model D
* 1918 Curtiss JN-4 Can (Canuck) "City of Edmonton" (C1347)
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* 1909 – The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in
Canada and the British Empire.
* 1917 – First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia.2
in 1947, the replica of the 1909 AEA Silver Dart that a Canadian
astronaut flew at Baddeck, NS on the 100th anniversary of flight
in Canada in 2009 (right) is going 3
* 1909 – The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada
and the British Empire.
* 1917 – First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The
beginning of the February Revolution.4
AEA Silver Dart>Silver Dart on 10 March 1909, McCurdy flew the
aircraft on a circular course over a distance of more than 35 km (20
mi).5
Made by Aerial Experiment Association.
Canada's first aircraft, the AEA Silver Dart, in flight
The aviation age came to Canada on February 23, 1909, when Alexander
Graham Bell's Silver Dart took off from the ice of 6
ONE HUNDRED years ago, in Baddeck Nova Scotia, the AEA Silver Dart was
the first heavier than air, airplane, to fly a powered, AND controlled
flight, here in Canada.7
powered flight in the British Empire when the AEA Silver Dart took off
from the ice-covered waters of Bras d’Or Lake.8
when the AEA Silver Dart took off from the ice-covered waters of Bras
d'Or Lake. Bell also built the forerunner to the iron lung and he
experimented with breeding sheep.9
Height Main
292.1
Height Alt
2.9 m
Designer
Alexander Graham Bell
Frederick Walker Baldwin
Glenn Curtiss
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
Thomas Etholen Selfridge
John McCurdy Frederick W. Casey Baldwin Glenn CurtissThomas SelfridgeAlexander Graham Bell
Length Alt
9.15 m
Jet Or Prop
prop
Range Main
20 mi
Max Speed Alt
35
Type Of Prop
water-cooled V8 engine
Max Speed Main
40 mph
Status
Number Built
1
Crew
1
Area Main
52
Primary user
Span Alt
15.0 m
Plane Or Copter?
Power Alt
37.0
Engine(prop)
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
Manufacturer
Production Start Year
1908
First Flight
23
Production End Year
1908
Span Main
1496.06
Power Main
50 hp
Number Of Props
1
Empty Weight Alt
145.0
Length Main
914.4
Area Alt
50
Range Alt
17
Empty Weight Main
320.0
Produced
1908
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