Bryan Allen (hang glider)
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Bryan L. Allen | |
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 Bryan Allen while at NASA | |
| Born | October 13, 1952 |
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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][3] He later set world distance and duration records in a small pedal-powered blimp named "White Dwarf."[4]
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Allen graduated from Tulare Union High School in Tulare, California. He then attended the College of the Sequoias, and Cal State Bakersfield.[5]
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.[6]
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- ↑ 10 Amazing Pilots You've Probably Never Heard Of. (April 8, 2015) Retrieved from Flying Magazine
- ↑ MacCready "Gossamer Albatross". Retrieved June 12, 2015 from National Air and Space Museum
- ↑ Stability and Control of the Gossamer Human-Powered Aircraft by Analysis and Flight Test. (1982) Retrieved January 30, 2025 from nasa.gov
- ↑ The White Dwarf Flies Again. Retrieved from link Template:User-generated source
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