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 pioneering aviators. [1]
Membership was limited to those who piloted a glider, gas balloon, or airplane, prior to December 17, 1916, covering the entirety of the pioneer era of aviation, and just over two years into World War I. The cutoff date was set at December 17 to correspond to the first flights of Wilbur and Orville Wright. 1916 was chosen as a cutoff because a large number of people were trained in 1917 as pilots for World War I. [2] Twelve of the aviators were women.
The original organization dissolved once the last living member had died. This occurred with the death of 99-year-old George D. Grundy Jr. on May 19, 1998. [1] The organization was restarted and is devoted to collecting and publishing biographies on those who met the 1916 deadline. There were many pilots who soloed before the 1916 deadline who never applied to the club to be members. Some have been made honorary members.
Early Birds of Aviation members: [3]
♀ denotes a female aviator
✝ denotes died in an aviation accident.
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George D. Grundy Jr., the last of the world's first fliers, died on Tuesday at a nursing home in Leesburg, Fla. He was 99 and had been the sole surviving member of the Early Birds, an international organization of aviation pioneers.
"Early Birds" is an organization whose membership requirement is that the applicant must have flown in either an airship or an airplane during the first thirteen years of aviation. between 1903 and 1916. ...
Walter J. Addems, a pioneering aviator who built his first plane in 1916 and his last one in 1960s, but only after he had barnstormed across the nation and flown the mail in 1920s, trained pilots in 1930s and served as director of flight operations for United Airlines until 1950s, died on Nov. 21 at a hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 98 and for all his love of aviation, had not flown since 1980s. ... But he had flown alone in time to qualify for membership in an exclusive club: the Early Birds, 598 men and women who had flown solo, some in hot air balloons, before Dec. 17, 1916. ...
... and on passing ferryboats wonder who the aviator was and the kind of a machine ... and the inventor and maker is Malcolm Allison, the 17–year-old son of Col.
Caleb S. Bragg, long a leading figure in the aviation, automobile and motorboat fields, died here on Sunday in Memorial Hospital after a long illness at the age of 56. An engineer and the inventor or co-inventor of many automobile devices, including the widely used Bragg-Kliesrath brake perfected by him and the late Victor W. Kliesrath. Mr. Bragg won fame as a pioneer automobile racing driver, and Army test pilot during the first World War, a champion altitude flier, aviation manufacturing company officer, consulting engineer and amateur sportsman. He resided at 277 Park Avenue and at Montauk Point, L.I.
Brock, as he was christened, but known as Billy Brock In aviation circles, ... In 1927 Brock and Edward Schlee tried to break the existing record for flight ...
Walter Brookins, pioneer aviator and leading aviation figure, died today at his home after an illness of four months. His age was ...
Brown used a Wright biplane, in which he made a number of exhibitions and unique ...
Ralph Carter, who flew for the first time in 1911 when he was a Nebraska country boy and lived to become one of a handful of survivors of the Early Birds of ...
Antonio Sanche de Bustamente of Cuba, a judge of the World Court, was responsible for the Cuban policy ...
In 1912, Ralph Clayton Diggins made a successful flight and became the 26th person in the United States to receive a pilot's license. It was issued by the Aero Club of America in New York City, before the days of federal regulation.[ permanent dead link ]
Capt. J. Dickinson Este, Air Service Aeronautics, United States Army, son of the late Charles Este and Mrs. Este of Philadelphia.
John Frost was born at San Antonio, September 10, 1883. He graduated from Princeton in 1903 and entered the banking business. In 1916 he learned to fly at the Stinson School, bought his own airplane and had some 200 hours when commissioned directly from civil life as First Lieutenant, Signal Officers Reserve Corps, July 10, 1917. He passed his R.M.A. test October 15, 1917. ...
Paul E. Garber, whose childhood fascination with a kite inspired a lifelong love of aviation that led to the founding of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, died on Wednesday at the Arlington Hospital in Arlington, Va. He was 93 years old and lived in Arlington. ... An amateur flier, he was three times elected president of the Early Birds of Aviation, a fraternity of pilots who flew solo before 1916.
... held pilot license number 6 ...
Clifton O. Hadley, a pioneer of aviation and said at Bendix Field to have been the first paid air-mail pilot, made a sentimental air journey to Tarrytown, NY, today, ...
Clifton O. Hadley, a pioneer airplane pilot, died yesterday in Reading Hospital. He was 87 years old. Mr. Hadley made his first solo flight ...
Hewitt, Robert P., Test Pilot; born, Philadelphia, Pa. July 2 [sic], 1894; son of Luther E. Hewitt and Nellie (Jennings) Hewitt; married, Millicent G. Hand, Dec. 7, 1917. Educated: Central High School, Philadelphia, Pa.; Temple University. Professional: Civilian Aviation. Aeronautical Activities: 1911, Building and flying gliders; 1917–1918, instructing and test pilot, Call Field; 1918, detached service, Naval Air Station, Miami; 1919, Chief Pilot, Aero Limited; 1920, Aero Ltd. and Aero Service Corp., Philadelphia, Pa.; 1921–1922, Wright Aeronautical Corp. Flying Rating: Aero Club Pilots Certificate No. 8609; Experts Certificate No. 228; Civilian No. 701; Reserve Military Aviator. War Service: 2nd Pennsylvania F. A. from beginning of war to Sept. 1917 when transferred to Air Service. Member: Aero Club of America; Automobile Association; American Legion. Present Occupation: Test Pilot, Wright Aeronautical Corp. Address: 238 Lewis St., Paterson, N. J.; home, 111 E. Durham St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Robert R. Johnson, 68, of Salem, Missouri passed away November 5, 1959 in a St. Louis hospital after a long illness. A holder of F. A. I. license 205 issued in 1913, he learned to fly at St Louis early in 1911, and during the next five years he flew extensively with various planes and flying boats.
Kastory is a member of early Birds." This club is composed of about 500 persons who flew a plane 'solo' prior to 1916. Kastory is about as early a bird as there is ...
Wilbur R. Kimball, electrical and aircraft inventor, who was associated in his youth with Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Edison, died late Monday night in St. Luke's Hospital of organic maladies, it was learned yesterday. His age was 77.
Garden City, Long Island. August 13, 1911. With the wind eddies flattened to almost a dead calm, Miss Matilda Moisant, sister of the late John B. Moisant, who was killed at New Orleans last January, distinguished herself this morning as the second woman in this country to win a pilot's license under the rules of the Aero Club of America.
Claude W. Pound, 95 ...
Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, former commander in of the Pacific Fleet, died in the Philadelphia Naval Hospital at the age of 72 ...
The War Department has been notified from Clemens, Mich., of the death there today of Clearton H. Reynolds of Garden City, L.I., Captain in the Army Air Corps ...
Early Bird Clearton H. Reynolds, Capt., A. C., lost his life in an automobile accident, at Mt. Clemens, Mich., on February 14, 1930.
Brig. Gen. Martin Francis Scanlon of the Army, retired, and one of the first military aviators, died of heart failure Saturday at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He was 90 years old.
Anthony Stadlman, an early pioneer of the original Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, is dead at the age of 96, friends said today. ...
Max Stupar, 59, Austrian-born industrial-aviation planner; in an airplane crash, while flying a twin-engined cargo plane from Marietta, Ga. to Buffalo, N.Y.; near Wright Field, Dayton.
Ralph Hazlett Upson, aeronautical engineer who was a balloon-racing champion from 1913 to 1921, died Tuesday at Burien General Hospital. ...
Charles F. West, North Pacific Area Chairman, died July 14, 1972, after a brief stay in the hospital just after returning from an eastern trip. ...
Neptune, New Jersey, July 8, 1967. Charles R. Wittemann, a flier and pioneer aeronautical engineer, died today at the Jersey Shore Medical Center. He was 82 years old and lived on Paynters Road in Farmingdale. ...