ABOUT EMBRY-RIDDLE
Since it was founded just 22 years after the Wright brothers’ first flight, the University and its graduates have built an enviable record of achievement in every aspect of aviation and aerospace. […]
Month: September 2006
Dreams of Flight: Kansas Sets its Sights Above
With the wide-open skies as inspiration, Kansas is taking off with many top-rated aviation and aerospace attractions. […]
‘Greatest Generation’ volunteers painstakingly restore B-29
Today, members of this generation are again answering a call, this time to restore a piece of the history they lived, as volunteers restoring the last B-29 bomber. […]
The Embry-Riddle Story
On December 17, 1925, exactly 22 years after the historic flight of the Wright Flyer, barnstormer John Paul Riddle and entrepreneur T. Higbee Embry founded the Embry-Riddle Company at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati, Ohio. […]
The International Space Station and Its Predecessors
The concept of an international space station can be traced back to the mid-1800s when U.S. clergyman Edward Everett Hale wrote of a polar-orbiting satellite, built from 12 million bricks. […]
U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds
The Thunderbirds are the Air Demonstration Squadron of the United States Air Force. As such, they tour the United States and much of the world, performing aerobatic formation and solo flying in specially-marked USAF jet aircraft. […]
Astronauts and Cosmonauts
Dreams of spaceflight and its conquest are as old as humankind itself. These dreams were transformed into reality on April 12, 1961, when 27-year-old Flight Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin of the Soviet Union became the first human to venture into space. […]