Alec Ogilvie
British aviator
Died when: 80 years 10 days (960 months)Star Sign: Gemini
For the businessman, see Alec Ogilvie (businessman).Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander "Alec" Ogilvie CBE (8 June 1882 – 18 June 1962) was an early British aviation pioneer, a friend of the Wright Brothers and only the seventh British person to qualify as a pilot.
During World War I Ogilvie served with the Royal Naval Air Service before transferring to the Royal Air Force on its creation in 1918.
During the War he was chiefly employed in technical posts and after the War he worked as a consulting aeronautical engineer.
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