Timeline
Lifetime:
1875 -
1956
Passed: ≈
68 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Hiram Bingham
Books by Hiram Bingham
Explorer in the Air Service
History
Memoir
Non-Fiction
War
Explorer
Aviation
World war i
Air Service
Machu Picchu
Military Aeronautics
Yale University Press
In 1917, Hiram Bingham, the explorer who discovered Machu Picchu, became an aviator and organized the United States Schools of Military Aeronautics at eight universities to provide ground school training for aviation cadets. He then commanded the pri...