Albert Francis Hegenberger (September 30, 1895 – August 31, 1983) was a major general in the United States Air Force and a pioneering aviator who set a...

Bird of Paradise, crewed by 1st Lt. Lester J. Maitland and 1st Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger, completed the first flight over the Pacific Ocean from the mainland...

Amundsen accomplished the feat in the airship Norge. Lester Maitland and Albert Hegenberger, two lieutenants of the United States Army Air Corps, made the first...

28–29 – U.S. Army Air Corps Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger make the first transpacific flight from North America to the Hawaiian...

the prizes, US Army Air Corps Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger flew Bird of Paradise (a three-engine Atlantic-Fokker C-2 military...

National Guard following World War II. In 1927 Maitland and Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger completed the first transpacific flight from California to Hawaii...

McCook flew in from Milwaukee with Lts. Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger, two of its most distinguished alumni. The pair had successfully...

end of 1931. Materiel Division’s Fog Flying Unit under 1st Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger used the equipment for blind landings. Patterson Field named for...

Military offices Preceded by Clayton L. Bissell Commanding General, Tenth Air Force July 1943 – August 1945 Succeeded by Albert F. Hegenberger...

Lynbrook, New York (d. 2004) Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger took off from Oakland at 7:10 a.m. toward Honolulu in a race to...

ferry flight from Rockwell to Brooks Field, Texas, pilot Capt. Albert F. Hegenberger, on leg between Tucson, Arizona and Midland, Texas, loses Prestone...

pilots of the airplane Bird of Paradise, Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger, were attempting the first transpacific flight from California to...

politician Albert Heffer (1933–2013), South African cricketer Albert Francis Hegenberger (1895–1983), American United States Air Force major general Albert Hehn...

1948 Brig Gen Willis H. Hale (29 January 1942 – 19 June 1942) Col Albert F. Hegenberger (20 June 1942 – 25 June 1942) Brig Gen William E. Lynd (25 June...

properties of radio transmission and reception (circa 1905) 1958 Albert F. Hegenberger & Clayton C. Shangraw Four-course radio range beacon 1958 Malcolm...

system, developed by United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) Captain Albert Francis Hegenberger, was used to fly the world's first instrument approach on May...

Wright Field where it was tested by Albert Francis Hegenberger, a noted expert in aircraft navigation. Hegenberger found that the system worked as advertised...

MLB player Lester Maitland, pioneer U.S. Army aviator. In 1927 with Albert Hegenberger completed first flight from California to Hawaii David John Malloy...

First flight from U.S. mainland to Hawaii: U.S. Army lieutenants Albert Francis Hegenberger and Lester J. Maitland flew from California to Hawaii in the Bird...

1932. Influential advocates of instrumented flight training included Albert Hegenberger and Jimmy Doolittle.: 8  In 1965, the Federal Aviation Agency of the...

successful flight from the continental U.S. to Hawaii was made by Albert Hegenberger and Lester Maitland in the Fokker C-2 Bird of Paradise from Oakland...

beaten on 28–29 June 1927 by two Army aviators, Lester Maitland and Albert Hegenberger, who flew from Oakland, California, to Hawaii in an Army Fokker C-2...

Trophy C-130 Crew Honored with Mackay Trophy A-10 pilot awarded Mackay Trophy F-16 Pilots receive Mackay Trophy B-1B crew to get Mackay Trophy for bombing...

FAI Database ID#9108 1927 June 28–29 3,862.43 km Albert Francis Hegenberger and Lester Maitland Fokker F.VII From California to Hawaii, the longest open...

headquarters of the ILWU, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, 99 Hegenberger Road, Oakland. Hands of Peace (1967): Civic Park, 1375 Civic Dr., Walnut...

Standard for the hydraulically controllable propeller. 1934 – Captain A. F. Hegenberger USAAC for the first blind flying landing system. 1935 – Donald W. Douglas...

Navy had failed, on June 29, 1927, Lieutenants Lester Maitland and Albert Hegenberger of the United States Army Air Corps landed at Wheeler Field following...

the first ones arriving in April 1941 with Lieutenant Colonel Albert Francis Hegenberger to command them. Streett shifted to become plans and training...

senator from Florida; honorary Doctor of Public Service (1985) Albert Francis Hegenberger, major general in the United States Air Force; pioneering aviator;...

Town, South Africa. The Egyptian Air Force is formed May 9 – Captain Albert Hegenberger makes the first completely blind solo flight entirely on instruments...