What is Eddie August Schneider?
{{Infobox person | name = Eddie August Schneider | image = Eddie August Schneider on September 10, 1930 in Detroit with two pens in pocket 600 dpi 100 quality (crop).jpg | caption = Schneider on September 10, 1930 | birth_date = October 20, 1911 | birth_place = [[Manhattan]] | death_date = December 23, 1940 | death_place = [[Brooklyn]] | occupation = Aviator | spouse = Gretchen Hahnen (1902-1986) | parents = Emil August Schneider <!--(1886-1955)--><br>Inga Karoline Eldora Pedersen <!--(1882-1927)--> | children = }} '''Eddie August Schneider''' (October 20, 1911 – December 23, 1940) was an [[United States|American]] [[aviator]]. He set the transcontinental airspeed record for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/doc/557877247.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug%2025,%201930&author=&pub=The%20Hartford%20Courant&edition=&startpage=&desc=Junior%20Flyer%20Sets%203%20New%20Speed%20Marks |title=Junior Flyer Sets 3 New Speed Marks |author= |date=Aug 25, 1930 |website= |publisher=The Hartford Courant |accessdate=28 October 2015 |archive-date=10 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110094002/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/doc/557877247.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug%2025,%201930&author=&pub=The%20Hartford%20Courant&edition=&startpage=&desc=Junior%20Flyer%20Sets%203%20New%20Speed%20Marks |url-status=dead }}</ref> When he received his pilot's license, he was the youngest licensed pilot in the United States. ==Biography== Eddie Schneider was born in 1911 in [[Manhattan]] in [[New York City]]. His father was Emil August Schneider (1886-1955), a banker and [[Broker|stock broker]] who born in Germany. His mother was Inga Karoline Eldora Pedersen (1882-1927), who was born in Farsund, Norway. The family moved from Manhattan to Red Bank, New Jersey, and then they moved to Jersey City, New Jersey by 1920. Eddie graduated from Dickinson High School in Jersey City in 1927, the same yea