Skylark 1910 = Modified, rebuilt Curtiss pusher for exhibition flights by Mars, one of the first eight licensed pilots in the USA. In the top photo, the motor is an upright Hall-Scott type but the image is too small and blurred to identify it, and in the lower photo is a V-8. Like...
Master Air Pilots Inc, Rockford IL. SW-1, -2 1937 = 2pCM; 40hp Continental A-40. POP: 1, modified as SW-2 with 60hp Milwaukee Tank [NX18220]. Saginaw SEE Carr Sagstetter Clarence & Raymond Sagstetter, Wausau WI. 1935 = 1pOM; 30hp Sagstetter. POP: 2 ultralights with identical...
and one of the greatest Marine leaders of his era. Relentless, aggressive, fiercely loyal to his men, he is seen here in October 1942, just after arriving on Oahu from Guadalcanal. He was a man haunted by the deaths of the young pilots under his command, desperately uncomfortable with the...
to the men who flew dangerous high altitude cargo missions from India to China over the Himalayas, to the Marauders on the ground and the fighter pilots who supported them from the sky. It
In early 1943, he returned to VMF-223 as its skipper and took it out to the Solomons for a second combat tour. He should a couple more planes down, returned to the States to become one of the legendary test pilots in American history. ...
During the Second World War, the nose part of fighter planes was the space for the pilots to play the art. They would put the rebellious illustration on the head with sex and death as the theme, write the task that the crew had successfully executed, or the Alberto Vargas (AlbertoVargas...
"Bought 10/27 from Bach Aircraft Co," apparently by Clarence B Kerr, who in turn wrote to CAA on 5/34/28: "Reconstructed for me personally." Another note, undated: "Fiske & Catron replaced Liberty motor with Salmson air-cooled, moved pilots from rear to engine secton, built in cabin...