Bryan Allen (hang glider)
- Bryan Allen (hang glider)
Bryan L. Allen (born October 13, 1952 in Visalia, California) is self-taught hang glider pilot and bicyclist. He achieved fame when he piloted the aircraft that won the first two Kremer prizes for human-powered flight, the "Gossamer Condor" (1977) and "Gossamer Albatross" (1979). He later set world distance and duration records in a small pedal-powered blimp named "White Dwarf." As of 2007, he is employed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, working as a software engineer in the area of Mars exploration. Allen attended the Tulare Union High School in Tulare, California, College of the Sequoias, and Cal State Bakersfield.
ee also
* "The Flight of the Gossamer Condor", a 1978 short film
External links
* [http://zipcodemars.jpl.nasa.gov/bio-contribution.cfm?bid=250&cid=231&pid=230&country_id=US&state_id=CA "Martian" bio for Bryan Allen]
* [http://bryanlallen.googlepages.com Bryan Allen's home page]
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