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Day in Aviation History APRIL 3 rd Jump to April =>  1888 -
Birth of Conrad Tolendal Lally, Canadian WWI flying ace  1888 -
Birth of George W. Thompson, American self-taught aviator, and
one of the 1st Coloradan flyers.  1898 - Birth of Geoffrey
William Hemming, British WWI flying ace  1899 - Birth of Charles
Philip Allen, British WWI flying ace  1899 - Birth of Cyril
Hayes Sawyer, British WWI flying ace  1904 - Gabriel Voisin
successfully flies a modified Archdeacon glider at Berck sur
Mer, Picardie. Voisin added a canard to the design. His longest
flight on this day was 25 seconds.  1910 - French Emile Dubonnet
set a World record with a distance of 109km in 1h 48min and
54sec flying a Tellier monoplane  1912 - Death of Calbraith
Perry Rodgers, pioneer American aviator who made the 1st
transcontinental airplane flight across the U.S. , crashing his
Wright Model B while making an exhibition flight over Long
Beach, California, he flew into a flock