RichardEByrdPPT学习课件学习教案

1、会计学1Richard E ByrdPPT学习学习(xux)课件课件第一页，共16页。第1页/共16页第二页，共16页。Medal of Honor第2页/共16页第三页，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页第四页，共16页。Engraving of VMI ca. 1863第4页/共16页第五页，共16页。United States Naval Academy in

2、 Annapolis MD第5页/共16页第六页，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 e

3、xpedition. 第6页/共16页第七页，共16页。The Fokker F.VII of Byrd and Bennett in flight.第7页/共16页第八页，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

4、 complete the journey第8页/共16页第九页，共16页。Lt. Com. Byrd and aircraft第9页/共16页第十页，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 ;

5、a Fairchild FC-2W2, NX8006, built 1928, named Stars And Stripes and a Fokker Universal monoplane called the Virginia.第10页/共16页第十一页，共16页。Byrds expedition第11页/共16页第十二页，共16页。Second Antarctic ExpeditionOn his second expedition, in 1934, Byrd spent five winter months alone operating a meteorological stat

6、ion, Advance Base, from which he narrowly escaped with his life after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning from a poorly ventilated stove.第12页/共16页第十三页，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页第十四页，共16页。Byrd Memorial on Mount Victori