Sen Yet Young assisted in unifying China by heeding Sun’s call to “save China through aviation”. He enrolled in the Curtiss Aviation School in Buffalo, New York and soloed as a pilot on October 2, 1916. Sen Yet Young became the first Hawaiian American to be licensed, with sea plane and land plane ratings, receiving the Aero Club of America certificates 600 and 62 respectively. He won second place in marksmanship from an airplane and stayed months longer studying aviation engineering.
Young was named head of the Chinese Aviation Bureau and is credited with producing the first flourishing of aviation experts in Guangdong. He spearheaded the first Chinese factory to manufacture airplanes, and commanded the design and building of the Rosamonde, named after Sun’s wife, Soong Ching-ling.
Designed May 1923, the ‘Rosamonde I’ biplane trainer was made in Guangzhou in 1923. Madame Song attended the ceremony of the plane’s first flight, in July 1923.
Soong would fly as a passenger in the plane with pilot Huang Guangrui at the controls.
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