Talk:Orville Rogers

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Any aviation connection to (at least) his first name?

This was a remarkable fellow who I regret not being familiar with prior to his unfortunate demise--unfortunate inasmuch as it's a cryin' shame he didn't make 110!

But it sure seems to me that it might be more than coincidence that a guy christened in 1917 with the name Orville who grew up to be a jetliner captain just might have been named after a certain 20th Century titan who died Friday, January 30, 1948 (and no, that tain't a reference to Mahatma Ghandi, though he indeed ALSO died earlier that date half a world away on the subcontinent, via assassination as everyone knows--except maybe millennials who are history ignoramuses, pretty much a redundancy, granted.

And what about pilot marathoner Rogers's middle name? Yeah, I realize the Curtiss aviation firm and its founder Glenn Curtiss spelled it with that additional S, but maybe the mother didn't realize that when for whatever reason she wanted to give her newborn a doubly-flying name?

Because after all, wouldn't it make a lot of sense that a guy who happened to end up with that name might be inspired to go for a pilot's license, maybe not before gaining his DRIVER'S license (as was the case so famously with Neil Armstrong), but sooner or later, no? [signed] FLORIDA BRYAN — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:588:C504:6400:9194:DB50:6A5:DC0D (talk) 16:55, 15 November 2019 (UTC)