Aerial Experiment Association
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The Aerial Experiment Association was a group of engineers working collaboratively to design and make airplanes.
The group formed at the Nova Scotia laboratory of Alexander Graham Bell. Bell had developed a series of kites and wanted to equip them (or redesign them) with mechanical propulsion. To this end he consulted with Frederick Walker "Casey" Baldwin, John Alexander Douglas McCurdy about the structure, and with Glenn Curtiss about the engine. Lietenant Thomas Selfridge jointed them.[1]
In 1908 the AEA created the airplanes: Red Wing, White Wing, and June Bug.
Activities were publicized through a periodical called the Bulletin.
The association was created with a one-year mandate and allowed its term to expire on 31 March 1909.[2]
| Organization names | Aerial Experiment Association; Aërial Experiment Association |
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| Entity type | |
| Country | CA |
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| Scope | North American |
| Started aero | 1908 |
| Ended aero | 1909-03-31 |
| Keywords | kite, airplane |
| Key people | Alexander Graham Bell, Glenn Curtiss, John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Casey Baldwin, Thomas Selfridge |
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References
- ↑ Zahm, 1911, Aerial Navigation, pp. 264–265.
- ↑ McCurdy, 1909, Aerial experiment association work (2), "The Association felt that they had arrived at a stage where a purely experimental organization was no longer advisable, they having accomplished the purpose for which they originally associated themselves together, viz., "to get into the air," and so on March 31st the Aerial Experiment Association came to an end by time limitation."
Publications referring to Aerial Experiment Association or AEA
- McCurdy, 1908, Aerodrome No. 4 of the Aerial Experiment Association (Simple title: Aerodrome No. 4 of the Aerial Experiment Association, Journal: Aeronautics)
- McCurdy, 1908, Ingraham's folding tail (Simple title: Ingraham's folding tail, Journal: Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association)
- Moedebeck, 1908, Die Aerial Experiment Association (Simple title: The Aerial Experiment Association, Journal: Ill. Aër. Mitt.)
- Publication 13245, 1908, Copy of original agreement to organize the Aerial Experiment Association, signed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sept. 30, 1907 (Simple title: Copy of original agreement to organize the Aerial Experiment Association, signed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sept. 30, 1907, Journal: Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association)
- Publication 12978, 1908, Work of the Aerial Experiment Association for July (Simple title: Work of the Aerial Experiment Association for July, Journal: Aeronautics)
- Publication 67, 1908, Aerial Experiment Association (Simple title: Aerial Experiment Association, Journal: Aeronautics)
- Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association (Simple title: Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association, Journal: Aerial Experiment Association)
- Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association (Simple title: Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association, Journal: Aerial Experiment Association)
- Baldwin, 1908, Aerodrome No. 1. Selfridge's Red Wing (Simple title: Aerodrome No. 1. Selfridge's Red Wing, Journal: Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association)
- Dienstbach, 1908, What the work of the Aerial Experiment Association means (Simple title: What the work of the Aerial Experiment Association means, Journal: Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association)
- Publication 4583, 1908, The first successful trial of the new aeroplane Red Wing of the Aerial Experiment Association (Simple title: The first successful trial of the new aeroplane Red Wing of the Aerial Experiment Association, Journal: Aeronautics (UK))
- McCurdy, 1909, Hammondsport work of the Aerial Experiment Association (Simple title: Hammondsport work of the Aerial Experiment Association, Journal: Aeronautics)
- McCurdy, 1909, The A. E. A.'s work (1) (Simple title: The A. E. A.'s work, Journal: Aeronautics)
- Publication 13425, 1909, Further report concerning shipment of the Silver-Dart (Simple title: Further report concerning shipment of the Silver-Dart, Journal: Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association)
- Publication 13425, 1909, Further report concerning shipment of the Silver-Dart (Simple title: Further report concerning shipment of the Silver-Dart, Journal: Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association)
- McCurdy, 1909, Aerial experiment association work (2) (Simple title: Aerial experiment association work, Journal: Aeronautics)
- McCurdy, 1909, Aerial experiment association work (2) (Simple title: Aerial experiment association work, Journal: Aeronautics)
- Curtiss, 1909, Aeroplanes of the Aerial Experiment Association (Simple title: Aeroplanes of the Aerial Experiment Association, Journal: American Machinist)
- Bell, 1909, Experiments reported. (Work of the A. E. A.) (Simple title: Experiments reported from the A. E. A., Journal: Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association)
- Bradley and Perry, 1909, Power generation and transmission in aeroplanes (Simple title: Power generation and transmission in aeroplanes, Journal: Eng. Mag.)
- Dienstbach, 1909, Die neuesten Arbeiten der amerikanischen 'Aerial Experiment Association' (Simple title: The latest works of the American 'Aerial Experiment Association', Journal: Ill. Aër. Mitt.)
- Flight, 1912, Is the Wright patent antedated? (Simple title: Is the Wright patent antedated?, Journal: Flight)
- Parkin, 1964, Bell and Baldwin (Simple title: Bell and Baldwin)
- Parkin, 1964, Bell and Baldwin (Simple title: Bell and Baldwin)
