The Aero Club of America was a social club formed in 1905 by Charles Jasper Glidden and Augustus Post, among others, to promote aviation in America. It...
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Collier Trophy (redirect from Aero Club of America Trophy)
Robert J. Collier, publisher of Collier's Weekly magazine, was an air sports pioneer and president of the Aero Club of America. In 1910, he commissioned...
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Alan R. Hawley (category American aviation record holders)
City to Washington, D.C., in May 1916. He was the president of the Aero Club of America from 1913 to 1918. He was born on 29 July 1869 in Perth Amboy...
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Roland Garros (aviator) (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
18 April 1915. The Aero Club of America awarded him a medal for this invention three years later. On 18 April 1915, the fuel line of his Morane Saulnier...
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Pilot licensing and certification (redirect from List of aircraft categories)
aerial locomotion'. The Royal Aero Club followed in 1901 and the Aero Club of America was established in 1905. All three organizations, as well as representatives...
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Aerial Experiment Association (category Aviation history of Canada)
representative from the Aero Club of America. Curtiss had visited the Wright brothers to discuss aeronautical engineering and offered them use of a 50 hp engine...
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Thomas Scott Baldwin (category American aviation pioneers)
Baldwin picked up the sobriquet, "Father of the American Dirigible". He received the Aero Club of America's first balloon pilot certificate.[citation...
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civilian aviation organizations—the Aero Club of America and the Aerial League of America—to manage problems of medical screening and standards for U...
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Wright brothers (category American people of Dutch descent)
brothers letter (page 1, page 2) to the Aero Club of America describes the long flights and provides a list of witnesses. (Courtesy Dayton Metro Library...
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Gustave Whitehead (category American aviation pioneers)
helicopter built by Lee Burridge of the Aero Club of America, but the craft failed to fly. Whitehead's own 1911 studies of the vertical flight problem resulted...
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Aero Company. Located at Mineola on Long Island, the unit rented and then purchased its own aircraft with funds donated by the Aero Club of America and...
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Claims to the first airplane flight (redirect from Invention of the airplane)
Second Annual Exhibition of the Aero Club of America", Scientific American, December 15, 1906, p. 448-449 Scientific American, January 25, 1908 Malan,...
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British Royal Aero Club followed in 1910 and the Aero Club of America in 1911 (Glenn Curtiss receiving the first). Civilian pilots fly aircraft of all types...
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Raymond Orteig (category American people of French descent)
then president of the Aero Club of America, on 22 May 1919. At the time, relations were strained between America and France because of the post-war negotiations...
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Augustus Post (category American male race walkers)
participation in the field of aviation for all, including women and minorities, and as secretary of the Aero Club of America he signed the first woman's...
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Harriet Quimby (category American women screenwriters)
first American woman to earn a pilot’s license, receiving Fédération Aéronautique Internationale certificate No. 37, issued by the Aero Club of America. She...
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Arts American Country Awards Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Aero Club of America, US aviation group, now the National Aeronautic Association Agile...
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March 1961) was a dirigible pilot with license #53 issued by the Aero Club of America, and a licensed free balloon pilot. His mentors included Ralph H...
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Wright Flyer (redirect from Wright Flyer of 1903)
flywheel. The crankcase, crankshaft, and flywheel of the original engine had been sent to the Aero Club of America in New York for an exhibit in 1906 and were...
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Robert J. Collier (category American military personnel of World War I)
time, was editor of Collier's Weekly. He was president of the Aero Club of America. Collier was born in New York City, the only son of Katherine Louise...
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flying club or aero club is a not-for-profit, member-run organization that provides its members with affordable access to aircraft. Many clubs also provide...
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Orteig Prize (category History of the Atlantic Ocean)
of several similar aviation prize offers, and was made in a letter to Alan Ramsay Hawley, president of the Aero Club of America at the behest of Aero...
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Matilde Moisant (category American people of French-Canadian descent)
Matilde Moisant became the second woman pilot certified by the Aero Club of America. She pursued a career in exhibition flying, known as barn storming...
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Airmail (section Introduction of the aeroplane)
Office of the Aero Club of America. p. 148. Retrieved March 15, 2022 – via Google Books. Palmer, John R. (1938). "Part 24: Airmail". Bibliography of Aeronaustics...
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Eugene Burton Ely (category American aviation pioneers)
first reported exhibition on behalf of Curtiss was in Winnipeg in July 1910. Ely received the Aero Club of America pilot's license #17 on October 5, 1910...
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Eugene Bullard (category French people of African-American descent)
incorporation of American pilots in the French Air Service, listed in the October 1917 issue of Flying, an official publication of the Aero Club of America, Bullard's...
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Glenn Curtiss (category 19th-century American inventors)
Aero Club of America, because the first batch of licenses were issued in alphabetical order; Wilbur Wright received license #5. At the culmination of...
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the Wayback Machine Aero Club of America press release Reprinted in Scientific American, April 2007, page 8. "Scientific American Trophy | National Air...
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Farman Aviation Works (category Defunct aircraft manufacturers of France)
"Reminiscence of the Essen Raids". Flying. Vol. 4, no. 1. New York City: Flying Association at the office of the Aero Club of America. January 1916....
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International Aviation Meet at Belmont Park (category Use American English from May 2023)
the Committee of Arrangements members were announced at the Finance Committee of the Aero Club of America. The members of the Committee of Arrangements...
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