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Eddie August Schneider

American aviator

Died when: 29 years 64 days (350 months)
Star Sign: Libra

 

Eddie August Schneider

Eddie August Henry Schneider (October 20, 1911 – December 23, 1940) was an American aviator who set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930.

His plane was a Cessna Model AW with a Warner-Scarab engine, one of only 48 built, that he called "The Kangaroo".

He set the east-to-west, then the west-to-east, and the combined round trip record.He was the youngest certificated pilot in the United States, and the youngest certified airplane mechanic.

He was a pilot in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee Squadron.He died in an airplane crash in 1940, while training another pilot, when a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 belonging to the United States Navy Reserve overtook him and clipped his plane's tail at Floyd Bennett Field.


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