Chanute ’ s public school system also includes Chanute High School-affiliated New Beginnings Academy, a program for students lacking credits to graduate and designed for individuals who have dropped out or are in danger of dropping out of high school.

Currently, only one elementary school is in operation, the newly built Chanute Elementary School, which combined all the separate elementary schools into one big, new building.

Chanute is also home to two private schools: Saint Patrick Catholic School and Chanute Christian Academy.

In 1934 the Army Air Corps realized it was outgrowing its facilities at Chanute Field, Illinois and began looking for a new facility where it could consolidate all of its Air Service Technical training schools.

Chanute ’ s middle school is Royster Middle School.

Chanute ’ s high school is Chanute High School.

High school credits for New Beginnings Academy are provided by Chanute High School.

Saint Patrick Catholic School provides schooling for students from pre-school ( ages three to four ) through the fifth grade while Chanute Christian Academy provides schooling for students from kindergarten through the twelfth grade.

Located in the heart of downtown, this sculpture was dedicated as a gift to the community in September 2003 by the Chanute High School Class of 1941.

Entering the Signal School at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, in July 1934, he completed the Communications Officers ' Course the following June and was assigned as communications instructor at the Air Corps Technical School, at Chanute Field, Illinois.

Flying training took place in Texas, divided between the 11th School Group ( primary flying training ) at Brooks Field and the 10th School Group ( advanced flying training ) at Kelly Field, and a technical school for mechanics was at located at Chanute Field, Illinois.

Denver ranked first, and Congress approved the Air Corps project in 1937, but Chanute remained the headquarters of the Air Corps Technical School & home to the aircraft mechanics school.

In February 1938 Lowry Field came under the jurisdiction of the Air Corps Technical School, still headquartered at Chanute.

Except for service at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, from January to July 1923, and completion of a three-month photographic course at the Air Service Technical School, Chanute Field, Illinois, in 1925, Schilt remained at Quantico for the next five years.

Graduating from Paul Robeson High School at Chicago in 1998, Pargo played collegiately for the University of Arkansas after transferring from Neosho County Community College in Chanute, Kansas in 2000.

He later attended Aircraft and Engine School and Hydraulic Specialist School at Chanute Technical Training Center, Ill.

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Other awards presented to Stafford include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, NASA Distinguished Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, NASA Exceptional Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Chanute Flight Award ( 1976 ), the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Space Award, National Geographic Society's General Thomas D. White USAF Space Trophy ( 1975 ), and the Federal Aeronautique Internationale Gold Space Medal.

Th Cardinal Drug Store in downtown Chanute is the home of one of the oldest original soda fountains in Kansas.

Chanute AFB and Mather AFB were chosen to close in round one and Lowry AFB and Williams were selected in round two.

Pilcher's breakthrough, thanks to correspondence with another pioneer, Octave Chanute, was to stack smaller, lighter wings one atop the other in an arrangement we know today as the biplane or triplane.

These experiments convinced Chanute that the best way to achieve extra lift without a prohibitive increase in weight was to stack several wings one above the other, an idea proposed by British engineer Francis Wenham in 1866 and realized in flight by Lilienthal in the 1890s.

Rounds one and two of the Base Realignment and Closure ( BRAC ) process transferred special instruments training from the former Lowry AFB and fire protection training from the former Chanute AFB, Illinois to Goodfellow.

Technical Schools and the basic section of the school, which was located at Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois, was transferred to Scott Field.

Octave Chanute provided a great service to those interested in aerodynamics and flying machines by publishing a book outlining all of the research conducted around the world up to 1893.

With the information contained in Chanute's book, the personal assistance of Chanute himself, and research carried out in their own wind tunnel, the Wright brothers gained enough knowledge of aerodynamics to fly the first powered aircraft on December 17, 1903.

The population exploded after 1869, when the Hannibal Bridge, designed by Octave Chanute, opened.

** Octave Chanute, French-American engineer and aviation pioneer ( b. 1832 )

* February 18 – Octave Chanute, French-American engineer and aviation pioneer ( d. 1910 )

* Grissom Hall at the former Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois, where Minuteman missile maintenance training was conducted.

Other aviators who made similar flights at that time were Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher, and Octave Chanute.

* Spicerweb. org, Octave Chanute biplane hang glider

When Langley received word from his friend Octave Chanute of the Wright brothers ' success with their 1902 glider, he attempted to meet the Wrights, but they politely evaded his request.

The city of Chanute is considered governmentally independent and is excluded from the census figures for the townships.

The northern part of the county experienced an economic and demographic setback with the closing of Chanute Air Training Center in the 1990s.

After Collins was reassigned to the United States, he attended an aircraft maintenance officer course at Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois.

In 1946, the National Order of the Arrow Lodge Meeting was held at Chanute Field.

Fairbury was laid out on November 10, 1857 by Caleb L. Patton and Octave Chanute.

Octave Chanute was a civil engineer employed by the new Peoria and Oquawka Railroad, which is now the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad.

Chanute, a French native, was later famed for publishing Progress in Flying Machines, which helped pioneer aviation.

The Wright brothers even mentioned Chanute as a mentor to them.

Chanute built the railroad that made Fairbury possible, but did so against the will of Patton, Fairbury's first citizen.

When Patton heard that Chanute wanted to build a railroad in his general direction, he saw it as an opportunity to make use of his otherwise deserted land and struck a deal.

If Chanute built his railroad through Fairbury, then Patton would give Chanute half of the town's property.

Patton and Chanute reached an agreement, and Chanute kept up his end of the deal.

However, when Chanute reached Fairbury, he was met by a group of armed citizens.