Roland Rohlfs

Roland Rohlfs ( born February 10, 1892 in Buffalo, New York; † 22 March 1974) was an American test pilot.

Rohlfs was the son of the furniture designer Charles Rohlfs and the mystery writer Anna Katharine Rohlfs. His brother Sterling Rohlfs ( born May 18, 1887 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, † 1928 in Toluca ) was also a test pilot, he died in 1928 in a plane crash.

Roland Rohlfs 1918 tested a seaplane called " Dunkirk Fighter" for the Curtiss Airplane Company. In 1919 he passed the three-decker " Curtiss L -3" as the first the limit of 10,000 m altitude and made with 34,610 feet ( with an outside temperature of -44 ° C), a world record.

  • Pilot
  • Americans
  • Born in 1892
  • Died in 1974
  • Man
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