biography
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Moffett, William (Adger)
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| lived:
| (1869–1933)
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| biography:
| US naval aviator, born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. An 1890 Naval Academy graduate, he served with Admiral George Dewey's fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay (1898). Well advanced in a traditional naval career by the second decade of the 20th-c, he became an early supporter of naval aviation. As chief of the new Bureau of Aeronautics (1921) he expanded naval flying programmes and improved training and equipment. Too old to learn to fly himself, he qualified instead as an aerial observer. He perished in the crash of the dirigible Akron in a storm off the New Jersey coast (4 Apr 1933). |
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