Richard E ByrdPPT学习课件PPT课件

1、Pioneering American aviatorPolar explorerOrganizer of polar logisticsExpedition leader第1页/共16页Medal of Honor第2页/共16页Richard Evelyn IIIEvelyn Bolling Byrd Clarke Catherine Agnes Byrd Breyer Helen Byrd Stabler Byrd and his familyin Boston第3页/共16页Engraving of VMI ca. 1863第4页/共16页United States Naval Aca

2、demy in Annapolis MD第5页/共16页1926 North Pole flight, and controversyOn May 9, 1926, Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett attempted a flight over the North Pole in a Fokker F-VII Tri-motor monoplane named Josephine Ford, after the daughter of Ford Motor Company president Edsel Ford, who helped finance the exp

3、edition. 第6页/共16页The Fokker F.VII of Byrd and Bennett in flight.第7页/共16页Trans-Atlantic flight, 1927In 1927 Byrd announced he had the backing of the American Trans-Oceanic Company, Inc., which was established in 1914 by Rodman Wanamaker with the purpose of building the aircraft to complete the journe

4、y第8页/共16页Lt. Com. Byrd and aircraft第9页/共16页First Antarctic expedition, 19281930In 1928, Byrd began his first expedition to the Antarctic involving two ships, and three airplanes: Byrds Flagship was The City of New York ;a Ford Trimotor called the Floyd Bennett ;a Fairchild FC-2W2, NX8006, built 1928

5、, named Stars And Stripes and a Fokker Universal monoplane called the Virginia.第10页/共16页Byrds expedition第11页/共16页Second Antarctic ExpeditionOn his second expedition, in 1934, Byrd spent five winter months alone operating a meteorological station, Advance Base, from which he narrowly escaped with his

6、 life after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning from a poorly ventilated stove.第12页/共16页DeathByrd died in his sleep on March 11, 1957 of a heart ailment at his Brimmer Street home in the Beacon Hill neighborhood in Boston. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. HonorsBy the time he died, he had amassed twenty-two citations and special commendations, nine of which were for bravery and two for extraordinary heroism in saving the lives of others.第13页/共16页Byrd Memorial on Mount Victoria