Eddie August Schneider
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican aviator (1911-1940)
United StatesLived 1911 to 1940 · aged 29Eddie August Henry Schneider 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".
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Eddie August Schneider shaking the hand of Richard Bronaugh Barnitz in Los Angeles, California, on August 21, 1930
Schneider landing at Roosevelt Field on August 25, 1930, after completing round trip transcontinental flight
Schneider with a hot cup of coffee from his sister Alice Schneider Harms (1913-2002) on August 25, 1930
Schneider on August 26, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois, for the National Air Race
Schneider on September 27, 1930, accepting the Great Lakes Trophy in Detroit, Michigan, from David Vincent Stratton of the Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation
Eddie August Schneider's (1911-1940) death certificate, issued in New York.Awards 1
About this person
Eddie August Henry Schneider 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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