Former IEEE-USA President Discovers Ancestor is Aviation Pioneer

August 27, 2012

There was a very interesting account in the June 2011 issue of Today's Engineer by Chris McManes, telling about the discovery by one of Micajah Clark Dyer's descendents that the story of the 1874 flying machine was authentic. A great story. Read it here:

http://www.todaysengineer.org/2011/Jun/aviation-pioneer.asp

06.11 IEEE-USA Today's Engineer: Former IEEE-USA President Discovers Ancestor is Aviation Pioneer

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Jim Leonard set out to find if he had Native American ancestry, but the former IEEE-USA president found out something entirely different — a link to early U.S. aviation history.