Dr. W.P Christmas

While Dr. Chrismas was a indeed a trained doctor, he left the practice of medicine early to pursue flight. He had designed his own plane and taken several flights with by 1908. Dr. Christmas showed up at the Aero Meet with a new plane of his own design, supposedly 'crash proof'. After the Aero Meet he went on to set several endurance and ceiling records. By 1918 Dr. Christmas had designed another revolutionary aircraft with flexible wings. Dr. Christmas ended up holding nearly 300 patents related to aviation- a true early aviation pioneer.