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{{Infobox Person| name = Tony Jannus| image = Tony Jannus.gif| image_size = 150px| caption =| birth_date = 1889 | death_date = [October 12,
1916, [Russian Empire | education =| occupation = pilot| spouse =| parents =| children =-->
Antony Habersack Jannus, more familiarly known as
Tony Jannus (1889-
1916), was an early American
Aviator who piloted the first flight of the St Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line on
January 1,
1914. This was the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the United States, and the first such flight anywhere in the world to use a heavier-than-air aircraft.
Born in Washington, D.C., he did his flight training at the
College Park Airport in nearby Maryland in 1910. On
March 1, 1912, Jannus piloted a Benoit biplane when Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane near
St. Louis, Missouri. The next year, Jannus participated in a
New York Times Derby, flying actress Julia Bruns in a Baldwin Red Devil 4,000 ft. above
Staten Island for twenty minutes on October 12, 1913. The following month, he moved to St. Petersburg, Florida.
At the time, surface transportation between St. Petersburg and
Tampa, Florida required a circuitous, two-hour journey by railroad. Jannus' proposal for direct, scheduled air service over Tampa Bay between the two Florida cities was enthusiastically supported by city leaders and the then-mayor of St. Petersburg, Abram C. Pheil was a passenger on the inaugural flight. At a fare of five dollars, it was the first time tickets were sold to the general public for point-to-point scheduled air travel.
Departing from a location near the downtown St. Petersburg Pier, the twenty-three minute flight traveled between St. Petersburg and Tampa, flying above Tampa Bay in Jannus'
Benoist XIV flying boat biplane. The Benoist reportedly reached a maximum speed of 75 miles per hour during the flight, according to a
United Press International account. Other reports indicate that Jannus flew over the Bay at an
altitude of fifty feet.
An operational replica of the Benoist Model 14 airplane flew across Tampa Bay in a 75th anniversary re-enactment of Tony Jannus' flight, on
January 1,
1989. It is now exhibited at the St. Petersburg Museum of History at the St. Petersburg Pier, near the site of the inaugural flight.
The Tony Jannus Distinguished Aviation Society perpetuates the memory of Tony Jannus, the first commercial airline pilot, by annually conferring the
Tony Jannus Award for outstanding achievement in scheduled air transportation. Past recipients of the award are honored at the St. Petersburg Museum of History's Tony Jannus exhibit.
The birth of commercial air transportation by Tony Jannus is also commemorated by another replica of the Benoist airplane at the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport's baggage claim area in the terminal.
Jannus was killed on October 12,
1916 when his plane, a Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company H-7 he was testing for the czar of Russia for use in
World War I, had engine problems and crashed into the
Black Sea. His body was never recovered.
On
December 17, 2006, Tony Jannus was inducted into the
Paul E. Garber First Flight Shrine at the
Wright Brothers National Memorial at
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, joining other honorees such as Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh,
Amelia Earhart, and Chuck Yeager, who have shaped the aviation industry.
References
- Bickel, Karl A. - The Mangrove Coast, 1942 by Coward McCann, Inc., Fourth Edition in 1989 by Omni Print Media, Inc., p.265
External Link
Tony Jannus Distinguished Aviation Society – official website
{{Infobox Person| name = Tony Jannus| image = Tony Jannus.gif| image_size = 150px| caption =| birth_date = 1889 | death_date = [October 12,
1916, [Russian Empire | education =| occupation = pilot| spouse =| parents =| children =-->
Antony Habersack Jannus, more familiarly known as
Tony Jannus (1889-1916), was an early American
Aviator who piloted the first flight of the
St Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line on
January 1, 1914. This was the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the United States, and the first such flight anywhere in the world to use a heavier-than-air aircraft.
Born in Washington, D.C., he did his flight training at the
College Park Airport in nearby Maryland in 1910. On
March 1, 1912, Jannus piloted a Benoit biplane when Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane near
St. Louis, Missouri. The next year, Jannus participated in a
New York Times Derby, flying actress
Julia Bruns in a
Baldwin Red Devil 4,000 ft. above
Staten Island for twenty minutes on October 12, 1913. The following month, he moved to
St. Petersburg, Florida.
At the time, surface transportation between St. Petersburg and
Tampa, Florida required a circuitous, two-hour journey by railroad. Jannus' proposal for direct, scheduled air service over Tampa Bay between the two Florida cities was enthusiastically supported by city leaders and the then-mayor of St. Petersburg, Abram C. Pheil was a passenger on the inaugural flight. At a fare of five dollars, it was the first time tickets were sold to the general public for point-to-point scheduled air travel.
Departing from a location near the downtown St. Petersburg Pier, the twenty-three minute flight traveled between St. Petersburg and Tampa, flying above Tampa Bay in Jannus' Benoist XIV
flying boat biplane. The Benoist reportedly reached a maximum speed of 75 miles per hour during the flight, according to a United Press International account. Other reports indicate that Jannus flew over the Bay at an altitude of fifty feet.
An operational replica of the Benoist Model 14 airplane flew across Tampa Bay in a 75th anniversary re-enactment of Tony Jannus' flight, on January 1,
1989. It is now exhibited at the St. Petersburg Museum of History at the St. Petersburg Pier, near the site of the inaugural flight.
The Tony Jannus Distinguished Aviation Society perpetuates the memory of Tony Jannus, the first commercial airline pilot, by annually conferring the
Tony Jannus Award for outstanding achievement in scheduled air transportation. Past recipients of the award are honored at the St. Petersburg Museum of History's Tony Jannus exhibit.
The birth of commercial air transportation by Tony Jannus is also commemorated by another replica of the Benoist airplane at the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport's baggage claim area in the terminal.
Jannus was killed on
October 12, 1916 when his plane, a
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company H-7 he was testing for the czar of
Russia for use in
World War I, had engine problems and crashed into the Black Sea. His body was never recovered.
On
December 17, 2006, Tony Jannus was inducted into the
Paul E. Garber First Flight Shrine at the Wright Brothers National Memorial at
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, joining other honorees such as
Wright brothers,
Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and Chuck Yeager, who have shaped the aviation industry.
References
- Bickel, Karl A. - The Mangrove Coast, 1942 by Coward McCann, Inc., Fourth Edition in 1989 by Omni Print Media, Inc., p.265
External Link
Tony Jannus Distinguished Aviation Society – official website
