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Herbert Munter became Boeing's first test pilot, in 1915, and the three-seat Boeing BB-L6 Model 8 biplane, shown above, was built at his request, for his air tours. It first flew on May 24, 1920 and he used it to make the first flight over Mount Rainier, in Washington, at about 15,000 feet. The aircraft was later destroyed in a hangar fire, in 1923. In 1935, Munter formed the Air Craft Charter Service, in Ketchikan, Alaska, but sold it, in 1941, after which he flew for the United States Navy, during World War II. He was born in 1895 and died in 1970. |
HERB MUNTER
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
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RAINIER, WASHINGTON
British commercial aviator Percival Phillips helped form the Cornwall Aviation Company, in 1924, for which he flew 57,000 passengers without an accident, from Rocky Park airfield, in Cornwall, and Air Publicity Limited, in 1935, for which he flew advertising banners, from London. This photo shows the Avro 504N biplane, with registration number G-ACRE, that he flew. He died in an aircraft accident, in Cambridgeshire, in 1938. His Avro 504N was previously flown by Fred Wright, of W and M Flying Services, which purchased the aircraft, on May 7, 1934, from Air Travel Limited, of Gatwick, for 340 Pounds. It was originally owned by the Royal Air Force, as serial number E9408, and converted from a 504K to a 504N, before it was sold, in 1934. The aircraft was destroyed in an accident, on Sunday, February 13, 1938, in Camlingay, Cambridgeshire. |
An advertising banner flown over New Jersey, near the Holland Tunnel and within sight of New York City, on July 6, 2007. Phillips provided a similar service, for the London area. |
WRIGHT BUSES
LOUTH'S FLYING
FLEA 1934 & LINCOLNSHIRE FLYING SERVICES
British Royal Navy Lieutenant John Cyrill Porte was the test pilot for the Curtiss H-1 flying boat America, which first flew on June 23, 1914 and was built for Rodman Wanamaker, for an attempted non-stop transatlantic crossing, which Lord Northcliffe of theLondon Daily Mail newspaper had offered a 10,000 Pounds prize for. This flight, which was going to start on August 15, 1914, was going to have an American copilot, George E. A. Hallett, but it was abandoned with the start of World War I, on August 3rd. The flying boat was then sold to Great Britain and Lieutenant Porte later used its design as the basis of the Felixstowe F.5 flying boat, which was used by the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1925. This photo shows Lieutenant John Porte and George Hallett on the Curtiss H-1 flying boat America, which is also shown in the following photos. |
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