Edward C. Huffaker was an American pioneer of manned flight best known for suggesting decades before anyone else that the Bernoulli Principle may allow curved wings to fly."Edward Huffaker" from "The Wright Brothers: A Centennial Tribute," by Bob Gardner, East Tennessee State University. Accessed December 7, 2023."Edward Chalmers Huffaker," Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fame. Accessed December 7, 2023. Huffaker's wind-tunnel work has been discussed in histories of early American aeronautics.
In 1889, he performed glider experiments in Chuckey, Tennessee. From 1895 to 1896, he worked for the Smithsonian Institution on aviation modeling by invitation of Octave Chanute. Late in 1896, he returned to Chuckey to test more gliders under the Smithsonian's Samuel Langley's instruction. He left the Smithsonian in 1898 following disagreements with Langley."https://archives.etsu.edu/agents/people/242 Huffaker, Edward C." East Tennessee State University: Archives of Appalachia. Accessed December 7, 2023."Doers and Dreamers," Pilots, Planes and Pioneers. Accessed December 7, 2023.
Huffaker worked with the Wright brothers but they did not care for his personality or hygiene.
Huffaker patented a flight-stabilization device in 1920.
Huffaker never flew in an airplane.
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