Famous Pilots
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Seated left to right: Walter Brookins, first civilian pilot. Taught to fly by Orville Wright; Garland Lincoln, old-time movie stunt pilot; Gene May, veteran Douglas test pilot (supersonic); Jimmie Mattern, pioneer solo round-the-world flyer. Standing, left to right: Pop Montee, oldest licensed pilot; Fred Kelly & Jimmy James, who blazed first los Angeles air mail service; Horace Heidt, radio-T.V. star; Art Goebel, winner of first cross-Pacific race from San Francisco to Honolulu; Tony Le Vier, Ch. Eng'g test pilot for Lockheed Aircraft Corp, and Max Conrad, famed private pilot. From the Darlene Thorne Collection |
