Octave Chanute

	OCTAVE CHANUTE ELLEHAMMER First Great Aviation Historian Glider Experimentalist - Honored Engineer
	Born in Paris, France, 18 February 1832. At age 57 a successful engineer, began full attention to the problems of flight, assembled all known data on this science into a single synthesis and catalogued its problems. Publication of his classic "Progress In Flying Machines" in 1894 gave the world its first comprehensive treatise on flight. His glider experiments, more than 200 flights on the shores of Lake Michigan, advanced the knowledge of materials efficiency, aircraft structural integrity, and the science of flight, at a most trying period of growth. Died 23 November 1910.
	Elected to the International Aerospace Hall of Fame 1974