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in Aviation History May 28 th Jump to May =>  1887 - Birth of
Armand Pinsard, French WWI fighter ace who served during WWII.
1889 - Birth of Ernest Arthur Deighton, British WWI fighter ace
who also served in WWII.  1892 - Birth of Tone Hippolyte
Bayetto, British WWI fighter pilot  1893 - Birth of Yves Felix
Barbaza, French WWI flying ace  1893 - Birth of Donald Roderick
MacLaren, Canadian WWI fighter ace, who helped to found the
Royal Canadian Air Force, and later formed Pacific Airways  1895
- Birth of Edwin Tufnell Hayne, South african WWI fighter ace.
1895 - Birth of Guy Borthwick Moore, Canadian WWI flying ace.
1896 - Birth of Edwin Arnold Clear, British WWI flying ace  1897
- Birth of Umberto Calvello, Italian WWI flying ace  1910 -
Birth of Robert 'RT' Jones, American engineer, credited by NASA
as inventor of the swept-back and oblique wing concepts.  1913 -
1st flight of the Avro 503 Type H, British military seaplane,
evolution of the