can tell you that, going back beginning, some of the countries most important figures -- billy mitchell, who of world war i commander air forces -- they were both trained to fly by purdue graduates. got involved in flight from purdue was a guy named clifford. he graduated in 1908. his father sent him here from dayton, ohio. he paid out-of-state tuition son to come here and learn about internal combustion engines. great research going out. by the time he left, they said more about the engines. go back was for him to to dayton with his father, and they were going to build motorcycles. and they did. records in the smithsonian in washington dc. he says, in the evening near my to take long walks after dinner. i used to go past the workshop or the wright brothers were working, and i got to know them and everything. i don't believe a word of that. she, at that time, was a 22-year-old guy. he loved internal combustion engines. he loved the noise. he loved to make engine smaller and more powerful. knew the right brothers, in 1908, were working on airplanes. he made a beeline for the workshop. wh

brigadier general billy mitchell was the individual that proved c to the u.s.navy that you could sink battleships using aircraftn and a lot of that -- a lot of those test demonstrations were done off the coast here of virginia, and some more limited. in north carolina. and they were quite successful in proving that aircraft and ai power was a naval asset. so the ospreyland is a shipwreck that people do dive off of virginia's quite deep. i think there's only been a wat. handful of people that have dove it. the new jersey and virginia arer in about 250 to 300 feet of water. so they're tricky dives.we're but you know, there's a whole another layer when we're lookin at this area, we kind of looked at it from this battlefield aces archaeology and we're looking an it from this broader idea of st this maritime cultural landscape. we're looking at other facets other than just world war i and world war ii and we've started to look at this sort of these ok noncombat military losses, whicl are the billy mitchell fleets, as well. main so it's very interesting.re and i woul

you, going back to the beginning, some of the country's most important take years, billy mitchell, a world war one commander of the air force. arnold, the father of the modern air force, were both trained to fly by purdue graduates. cliff turpin graduated in 1908. his father sent him here from dayton, ohio for his son to learn about internal combustion engines. we had great research in mechanical engineering and the internal combustion engines. hethe time he left he said knew more about the engines than the factory. the plan was to go back to ohio and build motorcycles. manuscriptf turbines and he said in the evening ice used to take long walks after dinner. i would go past a workshop where the wright brothers were walking -- were working. i don't believe that. live turpin was a 22-year-old guy who loved internal combustion engines, the smell of oil and grease, he loved making engines smaller and more powerful. he knew the wright brothers were working on airplanes in 1908. they hired him when they found out he was a purdue engineer. they needed his experience. clift irvin helped the

you that, you know, going back to the beginning some of the country's most important figures, billy mitchell who was a world war i commander of the air force, hap arnold, the father of the modern air force, were both trained to fly by purdue graduates. the first guy that got involved in flight from purdue was a guy named cliff turpin, and he graduated in 1908. his father sent him here from dayton, ohio, paid out-of-state tuition for his son to come here to learn about internal combustion engines. we had great research going on in the interim combustion engine. and by the time cliff turbine left, they say he knew more about those engines than the faculty. and the plan was for him to go back to dayton with his father, and they were going to build motorcycles, and they did. they did start a motorcycle company. i've read cliff turpin's records in the smithsonian, you know, in washington, d.c., the air and space museum, and he says in the evening near my house i used to take long walks after dinner, and i would happen to go past a workshop where the wright wright brothers were working, and i got

that is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. >> some people like billy mitchell and george haskins airized the importance that travel was going to play not only in warfare, but in transportation in this country. as we go on it continues with , purdue graduates. by 1924, a purdue graduate named frederick martin, from indiana, was the most experienced pilot in the army air force. he headed up a group of four planes. the plan was to fly around the world. this was three years before lindbergh. they were going to stop every night. they would fly so far, and they would stop. they were able to go through land areas like the aleutians. over to various points. it ended up taking them over 150 days to do this. the whole trip was planned and organized by frederick martin. unfortunately, he was lost in a huge blizzard in alaska and was not able to finish the trip. and in a way, he thought he lost his place in aviation history. but he did not. december 7, 1941, guess who was in charge of all of the air corps in hawaii? frederick martin. and it turns out frederick martin and his c

that's one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind. >> some people, like billy mitchell and george haskins, realized the importance that air travel was going to play not only in warfare, but in transportation in this country. as we go on, you know, it just comets and continues with purdue -- continues and continues with purdue graduates. by 1924 a purdue graduate, frederick martin, from indiana was the most experienced pilot in the army/air force. he headed up a group of four planes. the plan was to fly around the world. three years before lindbergh. they were going to stop every night. they'd fly so far, and they'd stop. they were able to go through land areas as the allusions and over to -- alieu chans and various points. the whole trip was planned and organized by frederick martin. unfortunately, he was lost in a huge blizzard in alaska and was not able to finish the trip. and in a way, you might have thought he lost his place in aviation history, but he didn't. december 7th, 1941, guess who's in charge of all air corps in hawaii? frederick martin. and it turns out that frederic

i can tell you, going back to the beginning, some of the country's most important take billy mitchella world war one commander of the air force. cap arnold, the father of the modern air force, were both trained to fly by purdue graduates. the first guy who got involved in flight from purdue was a guy named cliff turpin graduated in 1908. his father sent him here from dayton, ohio for his son to -- paid out-of-state tuition for his son to come here and learn about internal combustion engines. we had great research in mechanical engineering and the internal combustion engines. by the time he left he said he , knew more about the engines than the factory. the plan was to go back to ohio with his father and they would build motorcycles. they did. i read his records in the at thenian in washington air and space museum. he said in the evening near my house, i used to take long walks after dinner. i would go past a workshop where the wright brothers were working. i got to know them and everything. i don't believe a word of that. cliff turpin was a 22-year-old guy who loved internal combustio