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	Octave Chanute in the Aviation History Encyclopedia
		Chanute invented the "strut-wire" braced structure that would be used in all biplanes of the future.
		Chanute was in contact with the Wright brothers from 1900, when Wilbur Wright wrote to him after reading Progress in Flying Machines.
		Chanute freely shared his knowledge about aviation with anyone who was interested and expected others to do the same.
	www.usairnet.com /encyclopedia/Octave_Chanute.html (668 words)

	Octave Chanute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Octave Chanute (1832-1910), born in France, was a naturalized American.
		Chanute also sponsored the work of others, including the Albatross by Bustov and a paper tube glider that was ruined by a rainstorm before it could be tested.
		Chanute unfortunately had only an incomplete understanding of the Wrights' efforts, but his encouragement doubtless helped the brothers motivations in times of trouble.
	invention.psychology.msstate.edu /i/Chanute/Chanute.html (413 words)

	FLYING MACHINES - Chanute & Herring
		Octave Chanute's Multiple-Wing Glider was built to test the possibility of utilizing wings which pivoted fore-and-aft about a vertical axis to control the center of pressure on the wings of the glider, thus providing stability.
		The work of Chanute and Herring should be seen as collaborative, for Chanute's engineering skills are evident in the truss bracing used on the gliding machine, while Herring contributed the cruciform Penaud-type tail, as well as the overall scheme.
		Octave Chanute went on to be the main enthusiast for the Wright Brothers during their early aerial trials, encouraging them and supplying them with the latest aerial information.
	www.flyingmachines.org /chan.html (707 words)

	Gliding Magazine \| Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Octave Chanute and his team arrived at Miller Beach in June 1896 to start a series of gliding flight experiments.
		Chanute’s biplane glider design of 1896 proved to be a key step on the road to the invention of the aeroplane.
		Chanute was 64 years-old in 1896 when the most important experiments were done and it is unlikely he flew.
	www.glidingmagazine.com /FeatureArticle.asp?id=249 (1124 words)

	Chicagoland Glider Council - Significant People
		Octave Chanute could be described as the father of aviation.
		Chanute was always willing to share his expertise and experiences in flying (even though he never actually flew himself), inviting amateurs to repeat and to improve upon the performances.
		Chanute felt that he was too old to fly by himself, but he kept meticulous track of and evaluated all data during his group's flight experiments.
	aerotow.evl.uic.edu /clgc/people.html (1514 words)

	Five Smart Men Who Didn't Invent the Airplane - January 1990
		Octave Chanute intermittently tested man-carrying gliders during 1896 and 1897 and again in 1901 and 1902.
		Chanute's new glider was made of paper tubing instead of wood spars.
		Chanute had worked closely with the Wright brothers and was understandably pleased to get word of their success at Kitty Hawk.
	www.afa.org /magazine/1990/0190airplane.asp (2733 words)

	Information page on the Octave Chanute and his 1897 hang glider
		Octave Chanute was a civil engineer, business man and aviation enthusiast whose standing in the aeronautical world of the time was well established.
		It was here, in the spring and summer of 1896, that Octave Chanute and four young assistants helped to set the stage for the achievement of powered flight with a series of important glider trials.
		Chanute and his four assistants pitched their tents on a spot within the present city limits of Gary, Indiana, on June 22, 1896.
	www.fiddlersgreen.net /AC/aircraft/Chanute-Glider/info/info.htm (1819 words)

	Octave Chanute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Octave Chanute was an American civil engineer who is best known for the support and encouragement he gave the Wright brothers during the years they were developing their aircraft.
		Chanute was born on February 18, 1832, in Paris, France.
		Chanute corresponded with many of the important figures in aviation, including Otto Lilienthal in Germany and the Wright brothers in the United States.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Dictionary/Chanute/DI51.htm (254 words)

	Air Force Link - Octave Chanute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Although a man of many talents and accomplishments, Octave Chanute is best remembered for three major achievements: popularizing aviation and spreading information throughout the growing aeronautical community of the 1890's; establishing the first professional American flight testing encampment and flight trials; and introducing the bridge truss to aircraft design.
		Chanute was born in France in 1832, but emigrated with his parents to America as a young child, when his father, a history professor, received an appointment as vice president of a college in Louisiana.
		A wealthy man, Chanute was a generous benefactor and philanthropist to many, and while the Wrights refused his many offers of financial support, they appreciated his wise counsel and encouragement.
	www.af.mil /history/octavechanute.asp (567 words)

	City of Chanute History - Octave Chanute
		At their invitation, Chanute visited the Wrights at Dayton, Ohio, and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and it was Octave Chanute who, at a meeting in December, 1903, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science announced to the world that the Wright Brothers had flown in an heavier than air machine.
		Wilbur Wright wrote: “If he (Chanute) had not lived, the entire history of progress in flying would have been other than it has been, for he encouraged not only the Wright Brothers to persevere in their experiments, but (his) private correspondence with experimenters in all parts of the world was of great volume.
		Chanute never tried to financially profit from his experiments and firmly believed that so many had worked towards the solution of flight that no one person, or persons, could take sole credit for the solution.
	www.chanute.org /Visiting/History/octave.htm (900 words)

	Welcome to The Chanute Tribune
		The replica Johnny Litchenburg made of Octave Chanute's 1896 biplane glide made its rounds as part of a Smithsonian traveling exhibit, hung in a DC restaurant for a couple of years and was donated to the City of Chanute in June of 1991.
		Litchenburg's replicas started with Ox Chanute, the great-grandson of Octave Chanute, who asked Litchenburg to build him a a replication when he was in town for a recognition ceremony in the mid-1970s.
		Although known in Chanute for his Chanute gliders, Litchenburg has also made replicas of other aircraft for museums, including WWI and WWII aircraft and a replica of a full-sized Da Vinci ornithopter.
	www3.chanute.com /chnsub/news/glider080406.shtml (894 words)

	Chanute Air Museum
		Octave Chanute (pronounced "sha-noot") was born in Paris and came to the United States as a child.
		Chanute designed and oversaw the construction of several important railroads in this country, as well as the first railroad bridge over the Missouri River and the Union stockyards in Kansas City and Chicago.
		Chanute was also instrumental in the revival of flight research in Europe in the early twentieth century.
	www.aeromuseum.org /exhibitsHistory_chanute.html (344 words)

	Octave Chanute
		Chanute concentrated on developing solutions to the problems of flight with the same analytical style that had made him a successful engineer.
		This map shows the location of "Chanute Hill," the large dune that Octave Chanute and his assistants used in their first experiments in the summer of 1896.
		To launch the glider from a level field, Chanute devised a launching apparatus in which the pilot held the glider and stood on a small rolling dolly.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Prehistory/chanute/PH7.htm (1643 words)

	Octave Chanute, November 2001- June 2002
		Octave Alexandre Chanut was born on 18 February 1832 in Paris, France.
		Octave Chanute introduced the railroad date nail into the United States, whereby it was possible to record the age and viability of preserved railroad ties.
		Octave Chanute Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The Chanute-Crerar Connection.
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/crerar/exhibits/chanute3.html (1317 words)

	Octave Chanute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1896 and 1897 Chanute, Herring and Avery tested gliders based on designs by German aviator Otto Lilienthal, as well as gliders of their own design, on the shores of Lake Michigan in what is now Gary, Indiana not far from Chicago.
		Chanute helped to publicise the Wright brothers' work, and provided consistent encouragement, making several visits to their camp near Kitty Hawk.
		The town of Chanute, Kansas is named after him, as well as the former Chanute Air Force Base near Rantoul, Illinois, which was decommissioned in 1993.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Octave_Chanute (751 words)

	Personal Aviation Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Chanute had developed a successful glider which served as the basis of the 1903 Wright Brothers airplane.
		A Chanute glider, similar to the one used by the Wright Brothers is preserved in the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio.
		Another Chanute glider is preserved in the Osa Johnson Museum in the former Santa Fe depot in Chanute, Kansas.
	www.delta.edu /rmmee/aviapers.htm (357 words)

	Chanute, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although Chanute is the largest city in Neosho County, it is not the county seat, the position held by Erie, Kansas.
		Chanute is one of only a handful of remaining full-service cities in the State of Kansas.
		Chanute's Martin Johnson Municipal Airport is one of the nicest general aviation airports in Kansas with a 4,255-foot runway and taxiway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chanute,_Kansas (1957 words)

	People
		Chanute was a mentor to the Wright Brothers and visited their camp on many occasions.
		Chanute went to Europe and lectured on aeronautics thus rekindling interest once more.
		Octave Chanute, No. 413 Huron Street, ex President of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and three companions were practicing aerial navigation with a Lilienthal aeroplane...."
	aboutfacts.net /People11.htm (723 words)

	Extended Bibliography: Octave Chanute
		Including "Octave Chanute's diary of his glides of 1896." from a small brown handwritten notebook in Manuscript Division of Library of Congress with footnotes in vol.
		Octave Chanute's aeroplane to be built for the Army." Dispatch from Washington, DC dated Oct 9, 1896, carried in newspapers Oct 10, 1896.
		9 of Chanute's gliders in the Indiana Dunes and 4 of Pilcher.
	spicerweb.org /chanute/biblio2.html (3148 words)

	octave - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Octave, In music, a span of eight notes as measured on the white keys of a piano keyboard.
		Chanute, Octave (1832-1910), American aeronautical engineer whose most notable contribution to flight was his compilation of developments in...
		Crémazie, Octave (1827-79), Canadian poet, who is considered the founder of French-Canadian poetry.
	encarta.msn.com /octave.html (144 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Octave Chanute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Octave Chanute Whatever you're looking for you can get it on eBay.
		The Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum and the Korean War Veterans National Museum and Library are located there on the site of the former Chanute Air Force
		Edward C. Huffaker, from left, Octave Chanute, Wilbur Wright and George Spratt are shown at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1901.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Octave+Chanute (237 words)

	Octave Chanute Papers (Library of Congress)
		Although these papers are principally concerned with the latter part of Chanute's career, there is some material from his career as a builder of railroads, the Chicago stockyards, and a railroad bridge across the Missouri River as well as his contribution to the technique of preserving wooden railroad ties.
		Chanute's father was vice president of the school beginning in 1838.
		Chanute, Annie Octavia, 1871 - 1924 Chanute, Elizabeth, 1889 - 1960, n.d.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/chanute.html (1041 words)

	Octave Chanute
		Octave Alexandre Chanute began his successful career in railroad construction at the Hudson River Railroad in Ossining, New York.
		In typical Chanute fashion of step by step investigation, his first act was to assemble all known data on the science into a single synthesis and to catalogue its problems.
		Chanute believed the advancement of flight science must be the work of many.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/chanute.htm (438 words)

	The Johnson County Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Chanute, who lived from 1832 to 1910, platted Lenexa, as well as Hillsdale in Miami County, in 1869.
		Nicks brings Chanute to life at the annual Spinach Festival, as well as for historical societies throughout the Kansas City area, such as Overland Park and Westport, and various chapters of civil engineering groups.
		When Chanute's book was reprinted for the bicentennial in 1976, famed astronaut Allen Sheppard wrote the forward explaining how important Chanute was to the early days of flight.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=10710274&BRD=1459&PAG=461&dept_id=506062&rfi=6 (1028 words)

	Welcome to The Chanute Tribune
		Chanute High school students were photographed stamping and stuffing fund-raising letters for the Neosho County Tuberculosis Association.
		The Chanute library board voted to hold a reception for Octave Chanute when he visits here next month.
		Chanute was invited here by prominent businessman S.E. Beach, to give an address titled, "Aerial Navigation," a field in which Octave Chanute is a prominent inventor.
	www3.chanute.com /chnsub/local/lookingback102406.shtml (134 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Octave Chanute conducted important experiments with manned gliders near Chicago, in Miller Beach, Indiana (June/July, 1896) and Dune Park, Indiana (August/September, 1896).
		After the Wright Brothers successful first flight at Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903, Octave Chanute lectured in Paris on the subject of aeronautic design, which served as the inspiration for a generation of European aircraft developers.
		Chanute is believed to be the first to conceive what was later referred to as the Controlwing by George Spratt.
	www.flyingflea.org /docs/Chanute.htm (192 words)

	The Octave Chanute Pages
		Focusing on Chanute's contributions to the invention of the airplane and his glider experiments in the Indiana Dunes in 1896.
		Octave Chanute's glider experiments in the dunes of Miller beach immediately attracted a goodly number of people, locals and reporters alike.
		The celebration was sponsored by the Chanute-Aquatorium Society, an organization dedicated to restoring the 1920's vintage bathhouse on Miller Beach and creating a museum to Chanute's glider experiments and the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II.
	spicerweb.org /chanute/chan_ind.html (737 words)

	William Avery
		In all, William Avery made 46 flights in Octave Chanute's glider, and he was the only man to fly a heavier-than-air machine at the exposition.
		He soloed in 1886, in a Lilienthal type monoplane glider and in Chanute biplane and triplane and multiplane affairs.
		In James Means' Aeronautical Annual for 1897, O. Chanute describes these flights and says of Avery that "in the course of a week learned to manage the machine nearly as well as Mr.
	www.earlyaviators.com /eavery.htm (665 words)

	C-133A — Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, IL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Rantoul, IL C-133A on display at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum on the grounds of the former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois.
		Chanute was the home of the Air Force Tech School for many years, and it features one of the largest buildings in the world (by square feet).
		The museum itself is housed in one of the flight line hangars, and it includes a nuclear missile silo that was formerly used to train missile technicians.
	www.visi.com /~jweeks/c133/c133chanute.html (122 words)

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