Bryan Allen (hang glider)
Hang glider pilot
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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)[1] and Gossamer Albatross (1979; the first human-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel).[2][3] He later set world distance and duration records in a small pedal-powered blimp named "White Dwarf."[4]
Bryan L. Allen | |
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Bryan Allen while at NASA | |
| Born | October 13, 1952 |
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Biography
Allen graduated from Tulare Union High School in Tulare, California. He then attended the College of the Sequoias, and Cal State Bakersfield.[5]
As of 2018[update], he was employed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, working as a software engineer in the area of Mars exploration.[6]
Honors
In 2025, Allen was inducted as an honorary fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.[7]
