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Micajah
Clark Dyer (1822-1891) has been nominated for induction this year into
the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins,
Georgia, by Dr. Sylvan R. Dyer. This is the third nomination Clark Dyer has
received for this recognition based on his invention of an "Apparatus for
Navigating the Air," for which he received U.S. Patent No. 154,654 on September 1, 1874.
The story leading up this nomination is an
amazing one. Dr. Dyer, a great, great grandson of Clark Dyer, was visiting
Robins Air Force Base on June 20, 2017, where he viewed the Aviation Hall of
Fame and felt strongly impressed to work toward getting Clark inducted since his flying
machine was the first navigable aircraft invented and flown in Georgia. When he
told the director that he wanted to make the nomination, she told him, “You
picked a good time to come because this is the last day to nominate a candidate
this year, and I would have been out of the office in one hour!”
Then and there, Dr. Dyer submitted a
formal nomination for induction of Clark into the Hall of Fame.
The Board of Electors of the Hall of Fame
will select inductees from a group of qualified nominees submitted during this
fiscal year and, hopefully, Micajah Clark Dyer will take his rightful place of
honor within the revered Hall of Fame when the Board makes its inductions in April 2018.
(If you don’t already know the historical
account of Clark Dyer’s invention, scroll down through the earlier posts below
and learn about this man and his remarkable flying machine.)
