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Served as aid to Glenn Curtiss and co-authored The Curtiss Aviation Book published in 1912. [160] Participated in Aerial Experiment Association. [161] Served as official timer for Orville Wright’s record setting 57 minute flight at Ft. Myer, Virginia on September 9, 1908. [162] Edvard Rusjan † 6 Jun 1886 9 Jan 1911 Austria-Hungary (Slovenia ...
American aviation pioneers, people directly and indirectly responsible for the advancement of flight, including people who worked to achieve manned flight before the invention of aircraft, as well as others who achieved significant "firsts" in aviation after heavier-than-air flight became routine.
This category contains biographical articles about people who made significant pioneering accomplishments in aviation, either as accomplished aviators, or by contributing in some other substantial and lasting way to the art and science of aviation. This is not limited to the early days of aviation history, and may cover pioneering achievements ...
Clyde Vernon Cessna (/ ˈ s ɛ s n ə /; [1] December 5, 1879 – November 20, 1954) was an American aircraft designer, aviator, and early aviation entrepreneur. He is best known as the principal founder of the Cessna Aircraft Corporation , which he started in 1927 in Wichita, Kansas .
[1] [2] He had a younger brother, Donald, and a younger sister, Ople. [3] After his mother Nellie's death in 1912, the family moved to Wheeler, Texas to live with grandparents. Frye enlisted in the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1921, and was discharged as a corporal in 1922. [4] [5] In 1922, Frye left for California with his brother ...
First return flight between two towns: was made by Louis Blériot, who flew from Toury to Artenay, and back on October 30, 1908, for a total distance of 12 nmi (14 mi; 22 km). [ 51 ] First official pilot's licence : was licence number 1, which was issued to Louis Blériot by the Aéro Club de France on January 7, 1909.
The plane they flew was a second-hand Ryan monoplane. (At this time most private pilots were still flying biplanes.) It was the same kind of plane flown by Charles Lindbergh in his historic flight ...
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