Abraham Raygorodsky
Abraham Wladimir Raygorodsky (Ukrainian: Авраам Володимирович Райгородський; June 4, 1884 – ?), nicknamed Aviator Ray, was a Ukrainian-American aviation pioneer.[1][2]
Biography[edit]
Raygorodsky was born into a Jewish family in 1884 in Haisyn in central Ukraine, then in the Russian Empire.[3] He trained at the Farman flying school in Paris and received his pilot's certificate from the Aero Club of France around 1910. He immigrated to the United States in 1911 and became a citizen in 1919. In 1914, he attempted to win a $50,000 prize from Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe. His Daily Mail aviation prize was for the first transatlantic flight.[1][4]
In 1916, Raygorodsky announced that his Bridgeport, Connecticut-based company, International Aerial Navigation Co., was going to manufacture planes for $50,000 each, including "aerial ferries" planned for fights from Boston to New York.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Preparing for Transatlantic Flight". Reading Eagle. February 10, 1914. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
... transatlantic prize is Abram Raygorodsky who has the pilot's certificate of the Aero Club of France. Raygorodsky, a Russian who is a naturalized American ...
- ^ Louis Dembitz Brandeis (30 June 1971). Letters of Louis D. Brandeis. State University of New York Press. p. 586. ISBN 9781438422565.
... attention a young Jewish aviator named Raygorodsky. ...
- ^ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795–1925
- ^ "Raygorodsky to Seek $50,000 Prize with Gigantic Machine of 800 Horse Power". The New York Times. February 13, 1914. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
Abram Raygorodsky, a graduate of the Farman flying school in Paris, who is now living at Mineola, called at the Aero Club of America yesterday to ask for ...
- ^ "To Make $50,000 Aeroplanes - Connecticut Concern to Build Flying Machines of Great Capacity". The Morning Sun. July 9, 1916. p. 4. Retrieved April 17, 2024.