Howard Aiken was a military and civil engineer, the first American to fly a plane non-stop around the world and the first American to orbit the Earth. Aiken was also an expert in air and ground radar and an engineer who had built a radio station in Washington, D.C. In 1930, he became the first person to broadcast voice radio from airplanes. In 1933, he became the first person to broadcast from an airplane from one continent to another
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He is considered the father of aviation radio broadcasting in the United States.