Timeline for Who was the first black person (in the world) to go airborne in an aircraft?
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| Mar 29, 2017 at 19:47 | comment | added | DrZ214 | @Gerry I think you overlooked my final paragraph. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 12:28 | comment | added | Gerry | Since you specified "aircraft" you would have to consider the aircraft category/class of "lighter-than-air/balloons" which date back to 1783. It appears most answers have limited their response to considering only the category "airplane". | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 11:55 | comment | added | jwenting | You're spending so much time trying to show you're not racist by inventing terms to replace "black" or "negroid" that it's silly. Except some people in the US nobody cares about the term "black" or "negroid" in general, are smart enough to spot how it's used in context and whether than context is deregatory or not. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 11:53 | comment | added | Firee | Isn't this question off-topic? | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 14:56 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 26, 2017 at 1:34 | comment | added | mins | "there was much racism and segregation all over the world, not just in usa": Actually there was few countries with segregation: US, South Africa, Australia, Germany (briefly against Jews), Rhodesia and Malaysia. Segregation against Black people occurred only in US and South Africa. So your question is basically pertinent for US and RSA. Black people not flying early in other countries is because of other reasons. | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 19:48 | comment | added | DrZ214 | @mins No, I want to know the first black to fly in the world. Of course it's still related to segregation because aviation was invented in 1903, a time when there was much racism and segregation all over the world, not just in usa. I edited the OP. | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 19:47 | history | edited | DrZ214 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2017 at 18:08 | comment | added | jamesqf | Ahmet Ali Çelikten seems to have been of mixed race, mostly Turkish, not black. | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 17:35 | comment | added | mins | It seems related to segregation or something like this and you are likely asking for the US. There are countries where the only pilots and passengers are black and where the question is not really pertinent. Maybe you want to explain a bit more and use the tag "usa". Also the French pioneers in airmail used to fly over Africa and were assisted by local interpreters in case of forced landing in the desert or rebels areas (asking for ransom was usual at this time over 1917-18) | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 13:54 | comment | added | Daniele Procida | It seems much more likely to me that the first black person to fly would have been a passenger rather than a pilot. I suspect also that the first black person to fly would have been an African in Africa, in a European colonial possession (i.e. nearly all of Africa in the first decade of the twentieth century), and almost certainly as an employee rather than a paying passenger. But that's only a guess. | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 13:18 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/845625826511085573 | ||
| Mar 25, 2017 at 11:21 | answer | added | Timpanus | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 11:01 | history | edited | Federico |
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| Mar 25, 2017 at 6:27 | history | asked | DrZ214 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |