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6 de dic. de 2002 · Ben Epps was the first Georgian to build and fly an airplane in 1907. He was an inventor, mechanic, and aviator who taught many young Georgians to fly and founded Georgia's first civilian airport.
Ben Epps was critically injured in a crash at Athens in 1935 and in 1937, fatally injured in a take-off crash at the Athens airport, which is now named in his honor. His wife, Omie Williams Epps, was a staunch supporter of his interest and adventures in aviation.
Ben Epps stands with the Epps-Huff II, long thought to be Georgia’s first airplane. It never flew. The handwriting suggests 1907 as the year aviation began in Georgia.
History of Ben Epps. Ben Epps - Georgia’s Pioneer in the Sky. Ben Epps of Athens, Georgia, had much in common with Wilbur and Orville Wright. Like the Wright brothers, Mr. Epps had a bicycle shop where he built and repaired bicycles. And like the Wright brothers, he built and flew his own airplanes.
Ben T. Epps (February 20, 1888 - October 16, 1937), known as "Georgia's First Aviator" was an American aviation pioneer. In 1907, he built a monoplane of his own design, now known as the Epps 1909 Monoplane.
13 de mar. de 2016 · Meet the young Benjamin Thomas Epps, a true American pioneer with a vigor for all things mechanical. A Georgia native, by the time Ben had turned 17 he had abandoned his studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology and returned to his home to Athens in order to pursue his passions.
Ben T. Epps · Aviation in the Progressive Era · Narrative North Georgia. Ben Epps stands with the Epps-Huff II, long thought to be Georgia’s first airplane. Atlanta Journal article on the first flight of Ben Epps' "Epps Huff II" monoplane. One such engineer was Ben Epps, of Athens, Georgia.
