Gelatine was an airship piloted on September 19, 1905 by a pioneer American aviator and what?
barnstormer
Lincoln J. Beachey
Lincoln J. Beachey (March 3, 1887 – March 14, 1915) was a pioneer American aviator and barnstormer.
 He became famous and wealthy from flying exhibitions, staging aerial stunts, helping invent aerobatics, and setting aviation records.
Gelatine (airship)
Gelatine was an airship operated by the United States Army Signal Corps.
 "Gelatine" was built by Thomas Scott Baldwin's company Baldwin's Airships, Balloons, Aeroplanes of New York City.
 On the morning of September 19, 1905, the "Gelatine", piloted by Lincoln J. Beachey, ascended from the grounds of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition on the shores of Guild's Lake in Portland, Oregon, landing 40 minutes later at the Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver, Washington.
 The flight is considered as the first aerial crossing of the Columbia River and the first account of controlled powered flight in Washington.
Lowell Smith
Lowell Herbert Smith (October 8, 1892—November 4, 1945) was a pioneer American airman who piloted the first airplane to receive a complete mid-air refueling (along with Lt. John P. Richter) on June 27, 1923, and later set an endurance record of 37 hours on August 28, both in a De Havilland DH-4B.
 Smith also piloted the Douglas World Cruiser "Chicago", which along with one other made the first aerial circumnavigation in 1924.
 Smith held 16 records for military aircraft in speed, endurance and distance.
 He was awarded the best achievement in flight Mackay Trophy twice. List of British airships
Airship development in the United Kingdom lagged behind that of Germany and France.
 The first British designed and built airship was constructed by Stanley Spencer, and on 22 September 1902 was flown 30 mi from Crystal Palace, London to Ruislip, carrying an advertisement for baby food.
 A series of more practical airships was constructed by Ernest Willows, the "Willows Number 1" making its first flight near Cardiff on 5 August 1905.
 The Royal Navy realised that airships similar to Ferdinand von Zeppelin's designs could be of great use and in 1909 ordered construction of a rigid airship.
 This was completed in 1911 but was wrecked while leaving the hangar before it had flown.
 Meanwhile, the British Army's School of Ballooning, later the Air Battalion Royal Engineers, acquired a small fleet of semi-rigid and non-rigid airships for observation purposes; they were taken over by the Royal Navy on the creation of the Royal Naval Air Service in 1914.
 A large number of rigid and non-rigid airships were mainly used to counter the U-Boat campaign in World War I.
 Interest in military airships declined at the end of the war, but some success in the commercial field inspired the Imperial Airship Scheme; however, the disastrous crash of the R101 in 1930 ended serious government and commercial interest in airships.
 Since the 1970s, there have been persistent efforts to revive a British airship industry, using new designs, materials and technologies. Zachary Lansdowne
Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne, USN (December 1, 1888 – September 3, 1925) was a United States Navy officer and early Naval aviator who contributed to the development of the Navy's first lighter-than-air craft.
 He earned the Navy Cross for his participation in the first transoceanic airship flight while assigned to the British "R34" in 1919.
 He later commanded the USS "Shenandoah" (ZR-1), which was the first rigid airship to complete a flight across North America.
 He was killed in the crash of the "Shenandoah". Alys McKey Bryant
Alys McKey Bryant (1880–1954) was an American aviator.
 She was the first woman to fly on the Pacific Coast and in Canada, and one of the few female members of the Early Birds of Aviation—individuals who had solo piloted an aircraft prior to December 17, 1916.
 She cut short her brief career as a pilot after her husband, John Bryant, died while performing an air show in Victoria, Canada, in August 1913.
 During World War I she trained pilots. Hilaire du Berrier
Hilaire du Berrier (1905 – October 12, 2002) was a pioneer American pilot, barnstormer, and spy. Santos-Dumont number 6
The Santos-Dumont No. 6 was an airship designed and built by the Brazilian pioneer aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont.
 In 1901 it was used by him to win the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize for a return from Parc Saint Cloud to the Eiffel Tower and back.
 It is considered by many to be the first truly successful airship. Ernest Willows
Ernest Thompson Willows (1886–1926) was a pioneer Welsh aviator and airship builder.
 He became the first person in the United Kingdom to hold a pilots certificate for an airship when the Royal Aero Club awarded him "Airship Pilots Certificate No. 1". Douglas Campbell (aviator)
Douglas Campbell (June 7, 1896 – December 16, 1990) was an American aviator and World War I flying ace.
 He was the first American aviator flying in an American-trained air unit to achieve the status of ace.