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He was born on March 25, 1891.
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Nicholas Rippon Abberly
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He built and flew a pusher configuration aircraft from Mineola, New York on Long Island in September 1910. He soloed the aircraft in October 1910. An inventor by trade, Abberly filed several patents in a wide body of disciplines, including a bottom for floating equipment, rebound equipment for fitness machines, office clipboards, and hot formed metal columns.
He died in April of 1983 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
United States patent 3114345, Nicholas Rippon Abberly, "Bottom for floating equipment", published December 17, 1963.
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American