Gladys Buroker
Born and raised north of Seattle, Washington, Gladys Buroker’s interest in aviation began as a child. At 18, she made her first solo flight after only five hours of instruction. …
Month: June 2021
Fernic Tandem
The Fernic T-9 or Fernic Tandem Model 9 was an early three-surface aircraft. It possessed two lifting wings in tandem and designated as a conventional, twin-engine monoplane. Romanian aviator George Fernic designed the craft after emigrating to the United States.
Cliff Henderson WWII
Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Cliff Henderson volunteered for active duty. He contacted General Hap Arnold and requested overseas duty with the Army Air Corps. On March 19, 1942, Arnold appointed Cliff as Major temporary of the Army. Next, Cliff became Chief of the Air Transport Section under the U. S. Army’s 10th Ferry Command.
Bernie Pietenpol
Bernie Pietenpol was a self-taught mechanic who lived most of his life in the small community of Cherry Grove in southeastern Minnesota. He proved to be not much different than many young men of modest means in the late 1920s and 1930s.
Flight Trainers
Flight trainers preceded what we know today as the flight simulator. It replicates an aircraft cockpit to train pilots to fly on instruments or how to control technologically advanced aircraft. …