Bryan L. Allen (born October 13, 1952 in Visalia, California) is self-taught hang glider pilot and bicyclist. He achieved fame when he piloted the aircraft that won the first two Kremer prizes for human-powered flight, the Gossamer Condor (1977) and Gossamer Albatross (1979). He later set world distance and duration records in a small pedal-powered blimp named "White Dwarf." As of 2007^[update], he is employed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, working as a software engineer in the area of Mars exploration. Allen attended the Tulare Union High School in Tulare, California, College of the Sequoias, and Cal State Bakersfield.

Married to Jane K (Allen) 1986. Daughter born 1988.

[edit] External links

• "Martian" bio for Bryan Allen
• Bryan Allen's home page

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