Bryan Allen (hang glider)
Bryan L. Allen | |
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| Alma mater | Cal State Bakersfield |
Bryan Lewis Allen (born October 13, 1952) is an American self-taught hang glider pilot and cyclist. He achieved fame when he piloted (and provided the human power for) the two aircraft that won the first two Kremer prizes for human-powered flight: the Gossamer Condor (1977; the first human-powered aircraft that met the specified criteria of the first Kremer prize)[1] and Gossamer Albatross (1979; the first human-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel).[2] He later set world distance and duration records in a small pedal-powered blimp named "White Dwarf."[3]
Biography
[edit]Allen graduated from Tulare Union High School in Tulare, California. He then attended the College of the Sequoias, and Cal State Bakersfield.[4]
As of 2018[update], he was employed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, working as a software engineer in the area of Mars exploration.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ [1] Bryan Allen - hardest-working pilot ever
- ^ "MacCready "Gossamer Albatross" | National Air and Space Museum". Archived from the original on June 15, 2015. Retrieved June 12, 2015. Description of Gossamer Albatross in Smithsonian Museum
- ^ [2] Archived May 25, 2015, at the Wayback Machine The White Dwarf Flies Again
- ^ Sugar, James & Stephan Wilkinson (June 1986). "Who Is Bryan Allen?". Air and Space Magazine: 49.
- ^ Allen; et al. (2005). "The care and feeding of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Ground Data System (GDS)". NASA Technical Reports Server. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010.
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