Researching James Edgerton
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 429 people with the Edgerton surname? In that year Edgerton was ranked number 3150 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name James means "one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
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| Did you know that there are currently 590 people with the Edgerton surname in the UK? Edgerton is now ranked number 3483 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called James Edgerton
James Clark Edgerton
During his first Air Mail flight from Philadelphia to Washington Lt. Edgerton flew into a thunderstorm at 10,000 feet. "One instant the airplane became a tremendous elevator, leaping skyward hundreds of feet," Edgerton noted after landing at the Polo Grounds in Washington, "then the bottom promptly falls out, dizzy fall of hundreds of feet. I was attacked by solid waves of air."
Edgerton flew 52 trips over a total of 7,155 miles, spending 107 hours in the air and making only one forced landing as an Army Air Mail pilot. When the Post Office Department took over flying operations of the Air Mail Service later in 1918, Edgerton stayed with the service eventually becoming the Superintendent of Flying Operations. Later he organized and became superintendent of the Radio Service of the Post Office Department establishing its first aeronautical radio stations.
Source: James Clark Edgerton, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Edgerton
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