Leonard Warden Bonney

Leonard Warden Bonney

Leonard Warden Bonney (December 4, 1884 – May 4, 1928) was a pioneering aviator with the Wright brothers.

He was born in Wellington, Ohio in 1884, possibly as Warden Leonard Bonney [World War I . He was killed on the maiden flight of his aircraft in 1928.

External links

* [http://www.earlyaviators.com/ebonney.htm Early Aviators]
* [http://www.spoonercentral.com/Bonney/LWB.html Spooner]
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3897/is_200106/ai_n8972663 Flight Journal: Bonney Gull]

References

Further reading

*New York Times; May 5, 1928, Saturday; Curtiss Field, Long Island, May 4, 1928. Leonard W. Bonney, pioneer aviator who learned to fly under Orville S. Wright in 1910, was fatally injured this afternoon in the first flight he had ever made with his Gull.


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