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Hans Grade (May 17, 1879 – October 22, 1946) was a German aviation pioneer. | |||
Hans Grade was born in Köslin, Pomerania. On 28 October 1908 he successfully conducted the first motor-flight over German soil in a motorised triplane aircraft of his own construction at Magdeburg. | |||
A year later, on 30 October 1909, flying a new monoplane design he won the 40.000 Reichsmark "Lanz-Preis der Lufte", for the first German to fly a flat "8" in a German aircraft with German engine around two pylons 1000 meters apart. | |||
In 1910 he established the first aviation school in Germany. | |||
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== Sources of Information == | == Sources of Information == | ||
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Grade Wikipedia] | |||
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[[Category: Biography]] | [[Category: Biography]] | ||
[[Category: Biography - Aviation]] | [[Category: Biography - Aviation]] | ||
[[Category: Biography - | [[Category: Biography - Germany]] | ||
[[Category: Births]] | [[Category: Births 1870-1879]] | ||
[[Category: Deaths]] | [[Category: Deaths 1940-1949]] | ||
Latest revision as of 13:26, 9 September 2018
Hans Grade (May 17, 1879 – October 22, 1946) was a German aviation pioneer.
Hans Grade was born in Köslin, Pomerania. On 28 October 1908 he successfully conducted the first motor-flight over German soil in a motorised triplane aircraft of his own construction at Magdeburg.
A year later, on 30 October 1909, flying a new monoplane design he won the 40.000 Reichsmark "Lanz-Preis der Lufte", for the first German to fly a flat "8" in a German aircraft with German engine around two pylons 1000 meters apart.
In 1910 he established the first aviation school in Germany.
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