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TEXAS
AVIATORS & AVIATION | 
Lt. Clyde Cosper |
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by David Knape 8-26-12Combat
Over Texas by Dan
Heaton 6-8-12
America’s First Combat Sortie Took Place
April 20, 1915, in Brownsville, Texas.
Aviation pioneers Byron Q. Jones & Thomas
D. Milling1943
Secret Storm by Wanda Orton 6-17-12
Col. Joe Duckworth
made the first flight into the eye of a hurricane. |
| | The
Misadventures of Wrong-Way Corrigan by Maggie Van Ostrand 3-9-11
Famed
Douglas Corrigan tried for years to get permission to fly from New York to Dublin.
"No," said aviation officials, "it's not safe..., we give you permission to fly
from New York to California." Corrigan finally took off in heavy fog.... 28 hours
later, he arrived in Dublin. Corrigan claimed it was a "navigational error." Whatever
it was, he got to his dream destination and didn't even mind it when newspapers
dubbed him "Wrong-Way Corrigan"... |
Slats
Rodgers by Clay Coppedge
A key part of the Slats Rodgers story is that
he was the first man in Texas to receive a pilot’s license and the first one to
have his pilot’s license revoked. Not only is that what they call an ironic twist
to the story, it seems to sum up the man and his checkered career pretty well.
He also built the first airplane in Texas in 1911, nine years after the Wright
Brothers’ first flight... Landing
a B-17 by Bob Bowman
A day in the 1940s when the
pilot of a B-17 plane ran out of gas and decided to land on a dirt road at the
McQueen farm at Keltys, a sawmill town near Lufkin... Vin
Fiz Flyer by Clay Coppedge
One
of the first great aviation events in Texas was the arrival of a flying contraption
known as the Vin Fiz Flyer, which landed in Fort Worth on Oct. 17, 1911 as part
of what became the first Atlantic-to Pacific airplane flight. |
Lindberghs
Land at Spearman
- Historical Marker First
to Fly by C. F. Eckhardt
So far as is known, the first man-carrying, heavier-than-air
craft—the first airplane—flew not at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903, nor in
East Texas the year before. Nor did it fly in California in the 1880s, though
apparently a steam-powered monoplane was flown there then. It flew in Gillespie
County, Texas—in 1866. Enter Jacob Brodbeck—genius...Pope's
Flying Machine by Mike Cox
Readers of the March 2, 1895 edition of the
weekly Eagle Pass Guide surely paused over this short back-page headline: “New
Flying Machine.”... Pan-Am
and the Valley by Mike Cox
The March 8, 1929 opening of Brownsville Airport,
Charles “Lucky” Lindbergh , the beginning of international air mail service in
the U.S., the “Lost Mail Flight,” Amelia Earhart, Ford tri-motor plane .....
Lindbergh
by Mike Cox
Had it played out differently, what happened in Real County in
1924 could have changed aviation history... Patrolling
the Mexican Border by Air
Government and Private Enterprise Working Together
Cruse Aviation in the late 40s and early 50s
by John Troesser, Photos courtesy
Cruse AviationAir
Pioneer by Bob Bowman
In 1921 she became the only black pilot in the
world. A year later she became the first black woman to fly over American soil.
Braniff
International by Archie P. McDonald
"Long before American Airlines
moved to Dallas or Continental dominated Houston, Braniff flew the skies over
Texas."The
Ezekiel Airship by Bob Bowman
In late 1902, at least a year before the
Wright brothers soared into the sky, an airplane designed by Rev. Burrell Cannon
was flown 160 feet at Pittsburg.
The
First Air Flight by Bob Bowman 1st
Lt. Loye James Lauraine, Jr. by Murray Montgomery
"He was young,
only 26 years old..... 1st Lt. Loye James Lauraine, Jr. made the ultimate sacrifice
during World War II. He was a hero and was posthumously awarded this nation's
second highest honor, the Distinguished Service Cross. ....." (1 photo)Flying
Tigers by Archie P. McDonald
Ira
Eaker: From Covered Wagon to Jet-Age Air Power, Four Stars by Bill Bradfield
"During dark days of World War II when the bitter war was far from
won, it was a Texas tenant farmer's son who took command of the U.S. Eighth Air
Force in England, playing a key role in making the Normandy invasion possible.
..... " Cornelia
Clark FortLt.
Clyde "Sparky" Cosper by John Troesser
B-17 Pilot, 367th Bomber Group,
Hometown: Dodd City, Texas
"A B-17 crashed near the town of Princes
Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England on November 13, 1943. The only thing that
prevented the plane from landing directly on the town, was the Herculean effort
of the man at the controls....." (4 vintage photos)Merrion
Higginbotham, Thunderbolt and Mustang Pilot Robert
"Bobby" Stephens, WWII P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot, Gilmer, TexasTwo
Pilots, Three Air Forces, One Hometown:
Lt. Col. Alvin Mueller & Lieutenant
Dick Campbell by John TroesserWiley
Post - famous aviator Wiley PostMarfa
Army Air FieldStill
Boring Holes in the Sky by Ken Rudine
B-17 and B-24 bombersA
Mushed Landing in Leona | |
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