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'''Bryan L. Allen''' is an American self-taught [[hang glider]] pilot and bicyclist. 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 to fly and meet specified criteria)<ref>[http://www.flyingmag.com/photo-gallery/photos/10-amazing-pilots-youve-probably-never-heard?pnid=56045&src=SOC&dom=fb] ''Bryan Allen - hardest-working pilot ever''</ref> and ''[[Gossamer Albatross]]'' (1979; the first human-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel).<ref>[http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19810428000] Description of Gossamer Albatross in Smithsonian Museum</ref> He later set world distance and duration records in a small pedal-powered blimp named [[White Dwarf (dirigible)|"White Dwarf."]]<ref>[http://home.teleport.com/~reedg/whitedwarf.html] ''The White Dwarf Flies Again''</ref>

==Biography==
Allen graduated from [[Tulare Union High School]] in [[Tulare, California]]. He then attended the [[College of the Sequoias]], and [[Cal State Bakersfield]].<ref>{{cite journal|magazine=Air and Space Magazine|title=Who Is Bryan Allen?|author1=Sugar, James |author2=Stephan Wilkinson |lastauthoramp=yes |date=June 1986|page=49}}</ref>

{{As of|2013}}, he is employed by the [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] in Pasadena, California, working as a software engineer in the area of Mars exploration.<ref>[http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/handle/2014/37642 The care and feeding of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Ground Data System (GDS)] (2005), NASA Technical Reports Server, Allen et al. authors</ref>

==External links==
*[http://mars.nasa.gov/people/info.cfm?id=250 "Martian" bio for Bryan Allen]
*[http://bryanlallen.googlepages.com Bryan Allen's home page]

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