| Bryan L. Allen | |
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| Born | (1952-10-13) October 13, 1952 (age 72) |
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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) and Gossamer Albatross (1979; the first human-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel). He later set world distance and duration records in a small pedal-powered blimp named "White Dwarf."
Biography
Allen graduated from Tulare Union High School in Tulare, California. He then attended the College of the Sequoias, and Cal State Bakersfield.
As of 2018, he was employed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, working as a software engineer in the area of Mars exploration.
References
- "10 Amazing Pilots You've Probably Never Heard Of". Flying Magazine. April 8, 2015. Bryan Allen: hardest-working pilot ever. Archived from the original on June 22, 2023.
- "MacCready "Gossamer Albatross"". National Air and Space Museum. Archived from the original on June 15, 2015. Retrieved June 12, 2015.
- "The White Dwarf Flies Again". Archived from the original on May 25, 2015.
- Wilkinson, Stephan (June–July 1986). "Who Is Bryan Allen?". Air and Space Magazine. Vol. 1, no. 2. Photos by James Sugar. p. 49-55. JSTOR community.31044268.
- Wilklow, Colette M.; Allen, Bryan; Clarke, Kelly; Lee, Young; et al. (2005). The care and feeding of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Ground Data System (GDS) (Report). Pasadena, CA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. hdl:2014/37642. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010.
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