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Margaret Diana Haddon (daughter) Profession. Aeronautical engineer, Aircraft designer, Pilot, Entrepreneur. John Alexander Douglas McCurdy MBE, (2 August 1886 – 25 June 1961) was a Canadian aviation pioneer and the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1947 to 1952.
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John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, aviation pioneer (b at Baddeck, NS 2 Aug 1886; d at Montréal 25 June 1961). With F.W. BALDWIN and A.G. BELL he formed the Aerial Experiment Association to test the feasibility of powered flight.
Members of the group were: Alexander Graham Bell, J. A. D. McCurdy, F. W. Baldwin, Glenn H. Curtiss and Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge. On February 23, 1909, J. A. D. McCurdy became the first British subject to make a controlled heavier-then-air powered flight in the British Empire, when he piloted the Silver Dart over Bras d'Or Lake, Baddeck ...
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Nov 18, 2021 · November 18, 2021 | Latest News. J.A.D. McCurdy and The World’s First Wireless Air to Ground Transmission. The world’s first wireless transmission from an aircraft occurred over West Palm Beach, Florida in February 1911 with John Alexander Douglas McCurdy at the controls.
Highlights: Became the first powered aircraft to fly in Canada when it took off at Baddeck, Nova Scotia on February 23, 1909, piloted by Canadian aviation pioneer John Alexander Douglas McCurdy. Designed and built by Alexander Graham Bell and members of the Aerial Experimental Association (A.E.A.)
Feb 27, 2016 · John Alexander Douglas McCurdy was the first Canadian to ever pilot an aircraft. Not only that, but he was the first person to fly a plane so far over the sea that he couldn’t see the shore. His goal was to fly over the Straights of Florida from Key West to Havana – thus setting a new world record for distance flown over open water.
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy was born in Baddeck in 1886; at an early age he caught the attention of Alexander Graham Bell, famed scientist and inventor, who from the late 1880s spent part of each year in the small Cape Breton community.
