Bryan Allen (hang glider)

This article is about Bryan Allen, the hang glider pilot. For the hockey player, see Bryan Allen (ice hockey).

Bryan Lewis Allen (born October 13, 1952) is an American self-taught hang glider pilot and cyclist. He achieved fame when he piloted (and provided the human power for) the two aircraft that won the first two Kremer prizes for human-powered flight: the Gossamer Condor (1977; the first human-powered aircraft that met the specified criteria of the first Kremer prize)^[1] and Gossamer Albatross (1979; the first human-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel).^[2][3] He later set world distance and duration records in a small pedal-powered blimp named "White Dwarf."^[4]

Bryan L. Allen
Bryan Allen while at NASA
Born	(1952-10-13) October 13, 1952 (age 72)
Education	Tulare Union High School College of the Sequoias Cal State Bakersfield

Biography

Allen graduated from Tulare Union High School in Tulare, California. He then attended the College of the Sequoias, and Cal State Bakersfield.^[5]

As of 2018^[update], he was employed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, working as a software engineer in the area of Mars exploration.^[6]