# The Aviator and the Weather Bureau

Author: Carpenter, Ford A. (Ford Ashman), 1868-1947

Genre: Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57443

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## Summary

_History._--The year 1911 marked the beginning of the United States aviation school at San Diego. There is no finer tribute to the equability and general excellence of the climate of southern California than that given in the history of aëronautics. It was here, in 1900, that Chanute completed his early and epoch-making observations of the flight of gulls and pelicans. These contributed largely to the success of the Wright brothers a few years afterward. It was in southern California, six years ago, that Harkness, in an Antoinette, made his record monoplane flight to Tia Juana. San Diego witnessed the flying of the first seaplane, by Curtiss, five years ago. It is in this district that no...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aviator-and-the-weather-bureau-57443/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aviator-and-the-weather-bureau-57443/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aviator-and-the-weather-bureau-57443/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aviator-and-the-weather-bureau-57443/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aviator-and-the-weather-bureau-57443/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aviator-and-the-weather-bureau-57443/chapters/1/index.md)