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The Early Birds of Aviation is an organization devoted to the history of early pilots. The organization was started in 1928 and accepted a membership of 598 ...
Early Birds of Aviation is an organization that tracks people who solo piloted an aircraft before 1916. That year was chosen as the cutoff, because after 1916 the US Army started training large numbers of flyers for World War I. The organization was founded in 1928 and dissolved when the last living Early Bird aviator died.
Nicholas Rippen Abberly (March 25, 1891 – April 1983) was an American pioneer aviator and member of the Early Birds of Aviation. He was also an inventor and illustrator using several names and alternate spellings of his name.
Alys McKey Bryant (née McKey; 1880–1954) was an American aviator.She was the first woman to fly on the Pacific Coast and in Canada, and one of the few female members of the Early Birds of Aviation—individuals who had solo piloted an aircraft prior to December 17, 1916.
The term aviation, is a noun of action from the stem of Latin avis "bird" with the suffix -ation meaning action or progress. It was coined in 1863 by French pioneer Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de La Landelle (1812–1886) in Aviation ou Navigation aérienne sans ballons.
Percival Hopkins Spencer (April 30, 1897 – January 16, 1995) was an American inventor, aviation pioneer, test pilot, and businessman. [1] [2] He was one of the Early Birds of Aviation, a group which required members to have flown a glider, gas balloon or airplane prior to December 17, 1916. [2]
Archaeologists found ancient bird footprints that are 60 million years too early. They could rewrite the history of evolution. ... “Fossil tracks of early birds and theropods, the co-existing ...
Lamb was a member of the Quiet Birdmen [21] and the Early Birds of Aviation. Lamb wrote a book about his alleged exploits, The Incurable Filibuster. Adventures of Colonel Dean Ivan Lamb (Farrar & Rinehart, 1934, ASIN: B000QRALGU). It was ghostwritten by John Eoghan Kelly. [citation needed]