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Moffett, William (Adger) (1869–1933)| US naval aviator. An early supporter of naval aviation, he expanded navy flying programmes and improved training and equipment. |
| Born in Charleston, South Carolina, and an 1890 Naval Academy graduate, he served with Admiral George Dewey's fleet at the battle of Manila Bay (1898). Moffett became chief of the new Bureau of Aeronautics (1921) where, too old to learn to fly, he qualified as an aerial observer instead. He perished in the crash of the dirigible Akron in a storm off the New Jersey coast on 4 April 1933. |
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