Eddie August Schneider
Pilot, Deceased Person
1911 – 1940
Who was Eddie August Schneider?
Eddie August Henry Schneider 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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- Born
- Oct 20, 1911
Manhattan - Spouses
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- William L. Dickinson High School
- Employment
- Capital gardens
- Lived in
- Red Bank
- Jersey City
- Manhattan
- Died
- Dec 23, 1940
Brooklyn
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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