Charles Dellschau
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Charles August Albert Dellschau (4 June 1830 – 20 April 1923) was an artist and inventor.
He is reported to have been a draftsman for a secretive group of aviation pioneers in the mid-1800s, the Sonora Aero Club.
After retirement in 1900, Charles Dellshau illustrated several notebooks with colored drawings of airships, several of which are held in the collections of museums in Texas. In 1896-97 there were sightings of mysterious airships in America whose origins are still a mystery to this day. Many researchers[citation needed] believe that Dellschau and his Aero Club might have been the constructors of these airships on behalf of the US military. However Dellschau is not believed to be a pilot of any of the Airships since he identifies himself only as a draftsman and not as a test pilot for the Sonora Aero Club.
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- "Charles Dellschau". John H. Lienhard. The Engines of Our Ingenuity. NPR. KUHF-FM Houston. 1998. No. 1308. Transcript.
- Charles Dellschau from the Handbook of Texas Online
- Mystery Airships of the 1800s (Part 1 of 3) from Fate magazine, 1973
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