DUNNE (Lieut.), Eastchurch, Sheppey, Kent, England. Ex-British Army
officer. Engaged by British War Office to carry out heavier than air
experiments immediately after the aeroplane had been demonstrated a
possibility. (See _Dunne_ in part I.)
DUPUY DE LOME. Frenchman. Made a hand-propelled dirigible in 1870-72.
DUeRR (Ludwig). German. Born 1878. Chief engineer Zeppelin works.
DUTRIEU (Mdlle. Helene). Belgian. Second woman to take up aviation.
EFIMOFF (Michael). Russian. Made his first appearance in France early in
1910. (Ae. C. F. pilot 31). Distinguished himself on _H. Farmans_
and _Sommers_. On his return to Russia he was made chief instructor
of the special school of the Volunteer Aerial Association.
ELLEHAMMER (J. C. H.), Istedgade 119, Copenhagen. Commenced aviation
studies in 1905. On 12th Sept., 1906, he made a flight--the first in
Europe since Ader.
ELLYSON (Lieut. T. G.) U.S. Navy. In company with Lieut. Towers made the
first flights ever made in a hydro-aeroplane.
ELY (Eugene B.) American. Was the first to fly successfully off a
warship, which he did in a _Curtiss_ biplane on January 19th, 1911,
from the U.S. cruiser _Pennsylvania_. Killed 1911.
ENGLEHARDT (Kapitan). Prominent figure in German aeronautical and
aviation circles. Writer on aerial subjects. Began flying in 1910,
in which year he won several prizes. Killed 1911.
EQUIVELLY (Marquis d'), 2 Place Wagram, Paris. Pioneer aviator, with a
queer multiplane, 1907.
ERBSLOCH (the _late_ Oscar). Well known aeronaut. Inventor of a German
dirigible, the _R. M. W. G._, afterwards named after him. He was
killed in it with four others, July, 1910.
ESDAILE. British. Pioneered aviation displays in India, 1912.
ESNAULT-PELTERIE (Robert), 149 Rue de Silly, Billancourt (Seine),
France. Early experimenter with aeroplanes. Flew the first _R.E.P._,
October, 1907. Designer of the _R.E.P._ engine.
ESPITALLIER (Georges), 25 Rue St. Petersburg, Paris. Associated with the
late Col. Renard in early dirigible experiments. Author of many
aeronautical works.
ETRICH (Igo), Rotunde, Vienna II. Pioneer aviator with Wels. Designer of
the _Etrich_ monoplane--the first Austrian machine to fly.
EVANS (William Evans), 1428, Charlotte Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Purchased a biplane built by Dr. William Greene, who has since given
up aeroplane building. Evans made a number of exhibitions in the
middle West, but had given up flying by summer of 1911.
EWEN (W. H.) British. Head of the School for British _Caudron_.
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