TIL that the first black pilot in history was Ahmet Ali Çelikten, a Turk of Nigerian ancestry who was a fighter pilot for the Ottoman Empire in World War I

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Ali_%C3%87elikten

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