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The Allen Family of Aeronauts

RIAHOF — Sat, 23 Oct 2004 21:46:27 +0000

The Allen Family of Aeronauts: according to New York-based aeronautical researcher Chris Lynch, “If there was a founding family of RI aviation, they are it.”

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James & Ezra Allen

RIAHOF — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:22:56 +0000

Barrington natives James Allen (1824-1897) and his younger brother Ezra Allen (1840 - 1902) distinguished themselves through a lifelong commitment to aeronautics in the 19th century.

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George Armitage

RIAHOF — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:01:59 +0000

George Armitage (1887-1948) Born in England, he came to Rhode Island as a youngster and attended Providence public schools. He may have been the first person to fly in Rhode Island; it is known that he began experimenting with “power driven gliders” as early as 1905. A 1934 article in Rhode Island Review stated: “To […]

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Allen P. Bourdon

RIAHOF — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 21:34:00 +0000

Allen P Bourdon (1888-1972) was an aviation pioneer and WWI instructor pilot; he also flew with Amelia Earhart. He moved to RI in 1917 to learn to fly at Gallaudet Aviation in East Greenwich. He became a designer and test pilot for Gallaudet and later set up his own manufacturing plant at Hillsgrove. Bourdon Aircraft […]

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Raymond Noble Estey

RIAHOF — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 21:14:47 +0000

Raymond Noble Estey (1886-1980), a native of Waterbury, CT, moved to Rhode Island in 1909 and became an early photographer for the Providence Tribune. He assisted 2006 inductee Gerald Hanley with his first airplane in 1913, and produced some of the very first aerial photos of Rhode Island that year. While retaining his job as […]

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Edson Fessenden Gallaudet

RIAHOF — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:27:13 +0000

Edson Fessenden Gallaudet (1871-1945), Aviation Pioneer/Aircraft Manufacturer In 1898, four years before the Wright Brothers, he constructed and flew a glider, now in the Smithsonian, which embodied the principle of the warping wing. In 1911 he learned to fly at the Wright school, earning US pilot’s license #32 and a similarly low number in France. […]

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