About Edward C. Huffaker
Lived 1856 – 1937 (aged 80–81). Edward C. Huffaker was an engineer, inventor, designer, aerodynamicist, aircraft pilot and military flight engineer.
Edward C. Huffaker was an American pioneer of manned flight best known for suggesting decades before anyone else that the Bernoulli Principle may allow curved wings to fly.
In 1889, he performed glider experiments in Chuckey, Tennessee. From 1895 to 1896, he worked for the Smithsonian Institution on aviation modeling by invitation of Octave Chanute. Late in 1896, he returned to Chuckey to test more gliders under the Smithsonian's Samuel Langley's instruction. He left the Smithsonian in 1898 following disagreements with Langley.
Huffaker worked with the Wright brothers but they did not care for his personality or hygiene.
Huffaker patented a flight-stabilization device in 1920.
Huffaker never flew in an airplane.
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American pioneer of manned flight
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Edward C. Huffaker was born on 16 July 1856.
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Edward C. Huffaker died in 1937.
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Edward C. Huffaker was an engineer, inventor, designer, aerodynamicist, aircraft pilot and military flight engineer.
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