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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Matilde Moisant (category American people of French-Canadian descent)
Fortier. Both places exist in records, but her license from the Aero Club of America shows Earl Park. Both parents were French Canadians. Her siblings...
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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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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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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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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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National Aeronautic Association (redirect from Naa.aero)
institutional members, and regional aero club members, as well as aid in the formation of affiliated aero clubs in U.S. cities where such organizations...
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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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education, based in Brussels Adult Children of Alcoholics, counseling and support group Aero Club of America, US aviation group, now the National Aeronautic...
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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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Lucean Arthur Headen (category American aviators)
from the Aero Club of America. The tour led him to relocate to Chicago, but he was refused membership in the Aero Club of Illinois because of his race...
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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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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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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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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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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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Augustus Post (category American male racewalkers)
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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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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performances of 2,175 ft (663 m) and 3,420 ft (1,040 m) were considered encouraging, and the A.E.A. contacted the Aero Club of America to sign up for...
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Retrieved 23 February 2016. "The Aero Club of America". Flying. Flying Association at the Office of the Aero Club of America. February 1918. p. 55. Retrieved...
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PMID 22019535. S2CID 34348833. Wright, Wilbur (1912). "What Mouillard did". Aero Club of America Bulletin: 3–4. Lançon, Daniel (2003). "Louis Pierre Mouillard, aviateur...
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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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Elmer Ambrose Sperry (category Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
Electrical Society American Petroleum Institute Edison Pioneers National Aeronautical Association Aero Club of America Engineers' Club National Electric...
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Curtiss Flying School (category Aviation history of the United States)
was disbanded in 1922. Students would work toward completing the Aero Club of America pilot's license. The initial cost was one dollar a minute for the...
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James Knowles (aviator) (category American World War I flying aces)
with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Croix de Guerre, and the Aero Club of America Medal. Biography portal List of World War I flying aces from the United States "James...
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United States Aeronautical Reserve (category History of aviation)
Chambers of the Navy; and Major General Leonard Wood, Chief of Staff and U.S.A.R. member. "With offices not far from those of the Aero Club of America in New...
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Claims to the first powered 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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