Albert Francis Hegenberger
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Albert Francis Hegenberger
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Albert Francis Hegenberger was a major general in the United States Air Force and a pioneering aviator who set a flight distance record with Lester J. Maitland, completing the first transpacific flight to Hawaii in 1927 as navigator of the Bird of Paradise. Hegenberger was an aeronautical engineer of note, earning both the Mackay Trophy (1927) and Collier Trophy (1934) for achievement. Hegenberger also invented the non-directional beacon, adopted for both military and civil use.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Francis_Hegenberger
date created:
2006-10-19T05:31:00Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T12:06:57Z
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