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Edwin Eugene "Gene" Aldrin Sr. (12 April 1896 – 28 December 1974) was an aviator and officer in the United States Army during World War I and World War II. He was assistant commandant of the Army's first test pilot school at McCook Field , Ohio , from 1919 to 1922, and founded the engineering school there that later became the Air Force ...
Buzz Aldrin (/ ˈ ɔː l d r ɪ n /; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Sr. Rank, Service. Colonel O-6, U.S. Air Force. Veteran of: Tribute: Gene Aldrin was born on April 12, 1896, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
2 Jan 1975 · BRIELLE, N. J., Jan. 1 (AP)—Edwin E. Aldrin Sr., a retired Air Force colonel who was a founder of the Aeronautical Engineering School, now the Air Force Institute of Technology, died Saturday...
Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Sr., known as Gene, was born in 1896. He attended Clark University, graduating in 1915. There, he studied under Robert Goddard, who encouraged Aldrin's interest in aviation. Aldrin received his doctorate in aeronautical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Sr., In Flying Suit, Date & Location Unknown. His NASM biographical file (cited in the left sidebar) contains many pages of his study notes and exams from his schooling at MIT. For example, below is his neatly typed, MIT Advanced Airplane Structures exam from 1923.
7 Jul 2011 · Astronaut Buzz Aldrin is interviewed by phone from Los Angeles about his father, Edwin Aldrin, Sr. Edwin Aldrin counted among his friends airplane inventor Orville Wright, and Jimmy Doolittle, whose squadron of B-25s conducted the bombing of Tokyo in 1942, known forever as Doolittle’s Raid.