Augustus Moore Herring (August 3, 1867 to July 17, 1926) was an American aviation pioneer who is sometimes claimed by Michigan promoters to be the first true aviator of a motorized heavier-than-air aircraft. He was born in Covington, Georgia, studied in Switzerland and Germany and, as a student at the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1885 and 1886, was already building models of flying machines. By 1893 he had built a full sized glider, and in 1894 he built a monoplane glider based on Otto Lilienthal's 1893 German patent. He worked for Octave Chanute and for Samuel Pierpont Langley, and on October 10, 1898 he tried to fly a powered aeroplane of his own design at Silver Beach Amusement Park in St. Joseph, Michigan.
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Augustus Moore Herring (August 3, 1867, July 17, 1926) was an American aviation pioneer, who sometimes is claimed by Michigan promoters to be the first true aviator of a motorized heavier-than-air aircraft.
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In 1909 Herring joined Glenn Curtiss to create the Herring-Curtiss Company.
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The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (1909-1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer originally founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Augustus Moore Herring in Hammondsport, New York.
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