Eddie August Schneider

Eddie August Henry Schneider was an American aviator who set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twentyone in 1930. His plane was a Cessna Model AW with a WarnerScarab engine, one of only 48 built, that he called The Kangaroo. He set the easttowest, then the westtoeast, 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 BoeingStearman Model 75 belonging to the United States Navy Reserve overtook him and clipped his planes tail at Floyd Bennett Field.

Eddie August Henry Schneider was born in 1911 at 2nd Avenue and 17th Street in Manhattan in New York. His father was Emil August Schneider who was born in Bielefeld, Germany. His mother was Inga Karoline Eldora Pedersen , who was born in Farsund, Norway. Eddie had one full sibling Alice Violetta Schneider who married John Harms . He was never called Edward but was baptized as Eddie.

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