Ford is a licensed pilot of both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. On several occasions, he has personally provided emergency helicopter services at the request of local authorities in Wyoming, in one instance rescuing a hiker overcome by dehydration. Ford began flight training in the 1960s at Wild Rose Idlewild Airport in Wild Rose, Wisconsin, flying in a Piper PA-22 Tri-Pacer, but at $15 an hour (), he could not afford to continue the training. In the mid-1990s, he bought a used Gulfstream II and asked one of his pilots, Terry Bender, to give him flying lessons. They started flying a Cessna 182 out of Jackson, Wyoming, later switching to Teterboro, New Jersey, flying a Cessna 206, the aircraft in which he made his first solo flight.
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Harrison Ford | Aviation
He is a licensed pilot of both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. He is a licensed pilot of both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters; he has personally provided emergency helicopter services at the request of local authorities in Wyoming, in one instance rescuing a hiker overcome by dehydration. Ford is a licensed pilot of both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. On several occasions, he has personally provided emergency helicopter services at the request of local authorities in Wyoming. Yes, he is a pilot.
when was kingdom of the crystal skull filmed
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2008
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what is its genre?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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what is the significance of the crystal skull in the film?
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It was believed that it belonged to an alien life form and holds great psychic power, and finding more skulls will grant the Soviet Union the ability to rule the world through the use of telepathy.
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who played the role of jones?
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Harrison Ford.
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how is he related to aviation?
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According to Ford, it had been flown in the CIA's Air America operations, and was riddled with bullet holes that had to be patched up.
Harrison Ford | Aviation
The subsequent achievements of the RNZAF and the fine position we are in today with regard to civil aviation are themselves monuments to his early efforts.” His first cousin was Leslie R. H. Willis, engineer and archaeologist who excavated an Iron Age settlement at the hamlet of Dainton, at Ipplepen, Teignbridge, Devon.
T. M. Wilkes | Introduction
Jones later was head of Structures Section (formerly Airworthiness Section) from 1957 to 1980.
Royal Aircraft Establishment | Fictional appearance
Jones has an interest in aircraft. His biography in CART media materials often indicated that Jones was an avid flyer, holding a pilot's license at the time. As far as religion, Jones is irreligious.
P. J. Jones | Personal life
Hubert Jones was a flying ace. Hubert Jones may also refer to:
Hubert Jones (disambiguation) | Introduction
Brennan while looking for "Icepick" at a model airplane enthusiasts gathering. Unaware of Zack's interest in planes, Booth comments every "airplane freak" in the area was at the event, and Zack corrects him by saying the enthusiasts prefer to be called "pilots." Zack mentions forensic anthropology is only one of his areas of study; he received a second doctorate in applied engineering, and he is extremely adept in practical aeronautics.
Zack Addy | Characterization
Even after his retirement, his influence and contributions continued.
Edgar Johnston | Civil aviation
From 1926 his work was principally connected with reducing drag. In 1929 his paper "The Streamline Airplane" presented to the Royal Aeronautical Society was seminal. He proposed an ideal aircraft that would have minimal drag which led to the concepts of a 'clean' monoplane and retractable undercarriage. The aspect of Jones's paper that most shocked the designers of the time was his plot of the horse power required versus velocity, for an actual and an ideal plane. By looking at a data point for a given aircraft and extrapolating it horizontally to the ideal curve, the velocity gain for the same power can be seen.
Melvill Jones | After First World War
He was immediately sent to Europe to observe the training methods of British, French and American aviation schools. Jones returned from Europe on June 12 and was assigned to the office of the Director of Military Aeronautics. In his absence, the DMA had replaced the Aviation Section as the nation's air arm when President Woodrow Wilson issued an executive order on May 20 removing all military aviation activities from the overtaxed Signal Corps, and then itself had been merged with the Bureau of Aircraft Production as the Air Service. As an indirect consequence, Jones reverted to his permanent establishment rank of captain when his Signal Corps commission was discharged on July 9.
Byron Q. Jones | World War I and the Air Service
These were not only related to aviation, but also economic, civic, and scientific. Woodhouse also owned copyrights to many aviation related terms and titles. He was awarded a $25,000 judgement against the famous 1927 movie "Wings" when the court found that the title was a copyright infringement against Woodhouse's intellectual property.
Henry Woodhouse (forger) | Other involvement with aviation
His new duties were with the Engineering Division at Wilbur Wright Field, Fairfield, Ohio, testing and evaluating new aviation equipment. On November 4, he was again promoted to lieutenant colonel (temporary, Air Service) and assigned as officer in charge of all test and evaluation there.
Byron Q. Jones | World War I and the Air Service
He proposed an ideal aircraft that would have minimal drag which led to the concepts of a 'clean' monoplane and retractable undercarriage. The aspect of Jones's paper that most shocked the designers of the time was his plot of the horse power required versus velocity, for an actual and an ideal plane. By looking at a data point for a given aircraft and extrapolating it horizontally to the ideal curve, the velocity gain for the same power can be seen. When Jones finished his presentation, a member of the audience described the results as being of the same level of importance as the Carnot cycle in thermodynamics.
Drag (physics) | History
Born in Bryan, Texas, Jones was the third of three children of an impoverished Depression era family. He graduated from Allen Military Academy in 1949, then studied at university for two years, but did not graduate. His interest in mathematics led to jobs in the fledgling computer departments at aviation companies. Married in 1951, he was transferred to California by his employer, North American Aviation Corp. After time at the company's offices in Columbus, Ohio, Jones and his wife and two small children settled in Los Angeles where he managed a North American Aviation computer center.
Fletcher Jones (American entrepreneur) | Early life and education
The court is confronted with the dilemma: if Jones is machine, he/it cannot be sued, otherwise, if he is still a person, he cannot become company's property. Harry called his brother as evidence, but it turns out the latter one after plane crash is in the same predicament...
Przekładaniec | Radio-play version
Sir Bennett Melvill Jones, (28 January 1887 – 31 October 1975) was Francis Mond Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 1919 to 1952. He demonstrated the importance of streamlining in aircraft design. It had been known since the time of Aristotle, that a moving body passing through air or another fluid encounters resistance (aerodynamic drag), but Jones developed the ideas of Louis Charles Breguet into a refined theory to demonstrate emphatically the importance of drag to the performance of aircraft.
Melvill Jones | Introduction
The film features stunt work with aircraft. The effects were produced without CGI assistance. The crash scene of the de Havilland Beaver was performed with a Huey helicopter suspending the unmanned aircraft with a 200-foot cable with the engine running. Harrison Ford is a certified pilot and did his own flying in the film, after fulfilling the insurance company's training requirements.
Six Days, Seven Nights | Production
He went into the aviation business and became involved both with aircraft manufacturers and with airlines (both in the United Kingdom and in Europe). As an aviator himself he conducted important survey flights in Europe, in west and north Africa, and in the south Atlantic. His experience led to him being made a member of the council of the Air League of the British Empire. He established Farey-Jones (Insurance) Ltd, who specialised in insurance for the aviation industry.
Frederick Farey-Jones | Aviation
John Wayne was depicted piloting a Ford Trimotor in several episodes of the 1932 serial film "Hurricane Express". A Ford Trimotor appeared in Chapter 1 of "Flash Gordon" (Universal, 1936). Director Howard Hawks' 1939 film "Only Angels Have Wings" features a Trimotor that catches fire after a freak accident with a condor, eventually performing an emergency landing on an airfield. A real and a model Trimotor were used for the sequence. A Ford 4-AT-E Trimotor, N8407, appeared in the 1965 comedy "The Family Jewels" "flown" by Jerry Lewis. This aircraft is now owned by the Experimental Aircraft Association. The Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor currently owned by Kermit Weeks' Fantasy of Flight Museum was featured early in the opening of the 1984 film "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom".
Aircraft in fiction | Ford Trimotor
Neither Ford nor the instructor pilot suffered any injuries, though the helicopter was seriously damaged. When asked about the incident by fellow pilot James Lipton in an interview on the TV show "Inside the Actor's Studio", Ford replied, "I broke it." On March 5, 2015, Ford's plane, believed to be a Ryan PT-22 Recruit, made an emergency landing on the Penmar Golf Course in Venice, California. Ford had radioed in to report that the plane had experienced engine failure. He was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where he was reported to be in fair to moderate condition. Ford suffered a broken pelvis and broken ankle during the accident, as well as other injuries.
Harrison Ford | Incidents
He was his class's Cadet Captain and Maintenance Engineering Officer.
Herbert Carter (pilot) | Education and military training
Soon after World War I is over, Naval Aviator "Spig" Wead (John Wayne), along with John Dale Price (Ken Curtis), tries to prove to the Navy the value of aviation in combat. To do this, Wead pushes the Navy to compete in racing and endurance competitions. Several races are against the US Army aviation team led by Captain Herbert Allen Hazard (based on General Jimmy Doolittle—played by Kenneth Tobey). Wead spends most of his time either flying or horsing around with his teammates, meaning that his wife Minnie, or "Min" (Maureen O'Hara), and children are ignored. The night Wead is promoted to fighter squadron commander, he falls down a flight of stairs at home, breaks his neck and is paralyzed.
The Wings of Eagles | Plot
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Donald A. Hall | Aviation career
In a stroke of coincidence, flying at the same airport at the same time was another military aviator, Paul W. Beck.
Rex Smith Aeroplane Company | Introduction
If aviation was to become the field in which he was going to start a career, he would have to do his own research.
Preston Watson | Early history
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Jerry Sharkey | References
Towers spent his last years supporting aeronautical research and advising the aviation industry.
John Henry Towers | Introduction
Don Jones was born in Madison, Wisconsin, graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earned an MSA Degree from George Washington University, completed the Naval Postgraduate School course in National Security Affairs and attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Jones commenced active duty as a Naval Aviation Cadet in 1950 and after receiving his "Wings of Gold" he began a career-long association with helicopters and fixed-wing anti-submarine warfare. Postings with Air Development Squadron One, as a test and evaluation pilot, and Helicopter Squadrons One and Five were devoted to integrating the ASW helicopter into attack carrier aviation. He commanded a detachment of helicopters tasked to evaluate their role in the complex operational environment of the Attack Carrier.
Donald S. Jones | Biography
Previous airlines were commonly patterned after less than appealing military operations.
Harding Lawrence | Introduction
Morris-Jones. He won prizes including the R.A. Jones prize in mathematics (1910) and was considered an extraordinary student. In 1911 he graduated with a second class honours degree in Pure Mathematics, following this with a first class honours degree in Applied Mathematics in 1912. From 1913 to 1916 he held an "1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship" studying at the University of Göttingen and later at the National Physics Laboratory in Teddington. In this period he published an important paper with George H. Bryan called ""Discontinuous Fluid Motion Past the Bent Plane, with Special Reference to Aeroplane Problems"", which was seen as an important development in the understanding of aerodynamics.
Robert Jones (aerodynamicist) | Introduction
Jones attended Case Western Reserve University as an undergraduate and graduated first in his class. He continued his education at Stanford University and was awarded Master and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Aeronautical Engineering. Jones's graduate education was interrupted by four years of service in the U.S. Navy, serving as a Naval Flight Officer. Jones's career focus moved from aviation to computing, and his work to develop and employ standards in computer-aided design and manufacturing was acknowledged with an award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for being "the first commercial use of the Initial Graphics Exchange Specification."
John F. Jones Jr. | Education and military service
Ford is a licensed pilot of both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. On several occasions, he has personally provided emergency helicopter services at the request of local authorities in Wyoming, in one instance rescuing a hiker overcome by dehydration. Ford began flight training in the 1960s at Wild Rose Idlewild Airport in Wild Rose, Wisconsin, flying in a Piper PA-22 Tri-Pacer, but at $15 an hour (), he could not afford to continue the training. In the mid-1990s, he bought a used Gulfstream II and asked one of his pilots, Terry Bender, to give him flying lessons. They started flying a Cessna 182 out of Jackson, Wyoming, later switching to Teterboro, New Jersey, flying a Cessna 206, the aircraft in which he made his first solo flight.
Harrison Ford | Aviation
In "The Air Hawk", another pilot/actor was Frank Tomick who flew one of the two Curtiss JN-4 aircraft that were involved in the mid-air battles. Wilson produced his own movies until 1927, when he went back to work with Universal.
The Air Hawk | Production
In Washington D.C., Mr. Jones (Rafael Storm) receives a telegram from Los Angeles asking him to secure rights to a newly designed aircraft from inventor F. S. Reynolds (William Humphrey). Later that day, Cardigan (Robert Frazer), a gangster, lies to Jones that Reynolds is not really interested in his offer. Cardigan tries unsuccessfully to buy the aircraft and its plans from Reynolds. Test pilot Hal Foster (Richard Talmadge) and his girl friend, Reynolds' daughter Jean (Gertrude Messinger), arrive and Hal throws Cardigan out. Afterwards, Hal test flies the new aircraft and as he and Reynolds discuss its problems, Cardigan's henchmen arrive and steal the aircraft and the plans.
The Fighting Pilot | Plot
Browne attended the Hancock School of Aeronautics and Flying School, Santa Maria, California. He found steady work as a commercial pilot for Transcontinental & Western Airways flying the Douglas DC-2 airliner, just entering service. He was also commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army Air Corps Reserve.
John Trent (actor) | Aviation
Jones had an affection for race cars and the racing industry and became close friends with early driver Harry Stillman. Through his association with Stillman he began working extensively as a test driver for the Marmon Motor Car Company. Yet by October 1910 he had re-enlisted in the United States Army. Because he wanted to learn to fly, he requested a transfer to the Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps in 1913, without knowing that only an officer could become a pilot. He received his second honorable discharge from the Army in October 1913.
Buck Jones | Early life, military service
At that time there were 270 aircraft based at this airport: 80% single-engine, 10% multi-engine, 7% jet, and 3% helicopter.
Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Airport | Facilities and aircraft
After university he worked at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich in their workshop and was there until January 1911 when he joined in the Aerodynamics Department of the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington and then at Armstrong Whitworths where he worked on the design of airships until the outbreak of war in 1914. He was then seconded to the Royal Aircraft Factory, later the Royal Aircraft Establishment, where he worked on aerial gunnery until 1916 when he was transferred to the Air Armaments Experimental Station at Orfordness, which had established by Bertram Hopkinson who was then Head of the Engineering Department at Cambridge.
Melvill Jones | Early career and military service
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Wassmer Javelot | See also
He went to work at Douglas Aircraft Company in 1942. He worked for the Brazilian Air Ministry to create the Aeronautical Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1951. Around 1953 he went to work for the RAND Corporation where he published a study on transport planes for the U.S. Air Force. That same year he joined Northrop as assistant to the chief engineer, rose to be the president in 1959, chief executive officer in 1960 and chairman of the board in 1963. He was on the cover of "Time" magazine on October 27, 1961. He received the Reed Aeronautics Award in 1985 and the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy of the National Aeronautic Association in 1989.
Thomas V. Jones | Career
Figuring he had stretched the law of averages too far, he replied, "Maybe for you, sir, but not for me". That night, when he got home he talked to his wife and refrained from flying again in a helicopter until 1979.
Harold E. Thompson | Last flight
Brooks grew up in Southfield, Michigan and became interested in aviation at an early age. At age nine, he saw the Wright brothers and one of their aircraft at a state fair. Brooks began pursuing his interest in aviation, taking flying lessons at a local airstrip, where he was observed on several occasions by Henry Ford. His father played the violin at dances at a local inn and met Ford. The elder Brooks invited Ford home for dinner and introduced him to his son. Ford hired Harry to work in one of his auto plants. Several months later, Ford gave Harry a job as a test pilot for the Stout Metal Airplane Division of the Ford Motor Company.
Harry J. Brooks | Early life
Eileen M. A. Harkin-Jones is the Bombardier Aerospace-Royal Academy of Engineering professor of composites engineering at the Ulster University.
Eileen Harkin-Jones | Introduction
Guyton, however, was on leave at the time.
Boone Guyton | Introduction to aviation
just entered the war and needed experienced people to help the country establish an aviation industry in support of the war overseas in Europe.
Thomas F. Hamilton | Early aircraft designs
In June 1911, Rodgers visited his cousin John, a naval aviator, who since March was studying at the Wright Company factory and attending flying school in Dayton, Ohio. Rodgers became interested in aviation. He received 90 minutes of flying lessons from Orville Wright, and purchased a Wright Flyer with John. On August 7, 1911, he took his official flying examination at Huffman Prairie and became the 49th aviator licensed to fly by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. He was one of the first civilians to purchase an airplane. Instead of flying home, Rodgers entered the 1911 Chicago International Aviation Meet, where he competed with the leading aviators of the time.
Calbraith Perry Rodgers | Aviation
He lay unconscious in the hospital for hours. Said Harvard Medical School's famed plastic surgeon, Dr. Varaztad Hovhannes Kazanjian: "I do not think his speech will be affected. The operation for restoring his face should leave scarcely a scar." Capt. Hawks's good friend Will Rogers wired: "Sure glad nothing broke but your jaw. That will keep you still for a while. If I broke my jaw, I could still wire gags. What's the matter with you anyhow; are you getting ... brittle?" Following its repair, the aircraft was subsequently acquired in 1938 by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois, where it remains on display.
Frank Hawks | Crash
Prior to World War I, the focus of aviation psychology was on the aviator himself, but the war shifted the focus onto the aircraft, in particular, the design of controls and displays, and the effects of altitude and environmental factors on the pilot. The war saw the emergence of aeromedical research and the need for testing and measurement methods. Studies on driver behavior started gaining momentum during this period, as Henry Ford started providing millions of Americans with automobiles. Another major development during this period was the performance of aeromedical research. By the end of World War I, two aeronautical labs were established, one at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas and the other at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside of Dayton, Ohio.
Human factors and ergonomics | In aviation
Clayton Jones grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. He studied at the University of Tennessee and George Washington University. He served as a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force before joining Rockwell International. He served on the board of directors of the Unisys Corporation and General Aviation Manufacturers Association as well as on the board of governors of the Aerospace Industry Association. He was a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. He was an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Clayton M. Jones | Biography
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Joseph Henderson (pilot) | Legacy
Robert Jones (7 November 1891 - 17 March 1962) was a Welsh mathematician and aerodynamicist. He was one of the world's leading experts on the stability of airships. He was born at Criccieth, Caernarfonshire to John Jones and his wife Sarah Mary. He attended the local Board School and Porthmadog County School before entering the University College of North Wales in 1908. His primary course of study was in mathematics which he was taught by Professor George H. Bryan, F.R.S., an English applied mathematician who was an authority on thermodynamics and aeronautics. Additionally Jones studied Welsh philology taught by Sir J.
Robert Jones (aerodynamicist) | Introduction
This puzzles Harper and Wilson. Harper, seeing Decker's antique uniform, queries Decker if a vintage air show is nearby, or if he is making a film - Decker has no idea of what he is asked. He then asks Harper: "Excuse me sir, but where exactly am I?" Harper sarcastically responds, "Where exactly did you think you were?", to which Decker says, "Well, I thought I was landing at 56th Squadron RFC." "56th Squadron RFC? Wasn't that..." Wilson replies. Further confounded, Wilson asks Decker "What's today's date?", to which Decker answers "March the 5th". "What year?" "Why, 1917." "1917?!", Harper incredulously says.
The Last Flight (The Twilight Zone) | Plot
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) built an eight-foot foam model of the Zeppelin to complement shots of Ford and Connery climbing into the biplane. A biplane model with a two-foot wingspan was used for the shot of the biplane detaching. Stop motion animation was used for the shot of the German fighter's wings breaking off as it crashes through the tunnel. The tunnel was a 210 feet model that occupied 14 of ILM's parking spaces for two months. It was built in eight-foot sections, with hinges allowing each section to be opened to film through. Ford and Connery were filmed against bluescreen; the sequence required their car to have a dirty windscreen, but to make the integration easier this was removed and later composited into the shot.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Effects
In February 1916, 18 months after the outbreak of the First World War, Ford joined the Royal Flying Corps and trained as a rigger. He held the rank of air mechanic and was discharged in March 1919.
Harry Ford (footballer, born 1893) | Personal life
The first aviation film was the 1911 William J. Humphrey–directed two-reeler, "The Military Air-Scout", shot following an Aero Club of America flying meet at Long Island, New York, with Lt. Henry Arnold doing the stunt flying. "Arnold, who picked up 'a few extra bucks' for his services, became so excited about movies that he almost quit the Army to become an actor." The years between World War I and World War II saw extensive use of the new technology, aircraft, in the new medium, film. In the early 1920s Hollywood studios made dozens of now-obscure "aerial Westerns" with leads such as Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson, where the role of the horse was taken by aircraft, or used aircraft as nothing more than vehicles for stunts to excite audiences.
Aircraft in fiction | Origins
One of Jones' first jobs was with the Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company. Jones developed the Pobjoy Special air racer prior to the company shutting down in the depression.
Robert Thomas Jones (engineer) | Designer
It included machine-shops, schools, garages, offices, quarters and messes, a central heating plant, paved roads, a swimming pool, golf course, and tennis courts. Most important, there were eighteen hangars each able to house ten aircraft."
George Owen Johnson | Interwar years
Team spokesman Dorian Morphy, Senior Director, Marketing & Brand Management of True North Sports & Entertainment indicated, "We are thrilled to be able to continue this relationship in a significant way. The design cues for the plane were inspired by the military jets flown by the Air Force over the years."
McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet | Notable appearances in media
He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana and flew a Travel Air 2000.
Richard James (aviator) | Introduction
He operated out of Griffith Park air field where Paramount had leased the airfield and the National Guard Curtiss JN-4 "Jennies" stationed there.
Now We're in the Air | Production
Formed from assets of Miles Aircraft
List of aircraft (H-He) | <a href="Handley%20Page">Handley Page</a> (Reading)
During 1906 he turned his attention to aviation recognising its extraordinary potential. He became associated with the Farman brothers Dick, Henri and Maurice Farman born in Paris of English parents involved with newspapers. Through the Farmans he engaged a French pilot, Louis Paulhan, to compete for the £10,000 prize Holt Thomas's friend Lord Northcliffe of the Daily Mail offered in 1906 for a successful flight from London to Manchester, a distance far greater than anyone had then flown. In April 1910 Paulhan won the prize.
George Holt Thomas | Aviation
His daughter Rosalind said that the character Indiana Jones was based on him. According to Rosalind, film producers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg contacted her after her father's death and conducted a series of interviews, during which she provided an account of his life.
Tillson Harrison | Introduction
Holt Thomas remained a tireless advocate of civil aviation.
George Holt Thomas | Aircraft Transport and Travel Limited
His relationship with the Shah of Iran’s regime had proved of value in generating substantial export business for Britain's aviation industry.
James Pelly-Fry | Life after the war
"Upupa Epops" is now restored as close as possible to its World War II condition, as part of the Flying Heritage Collection.
Harrison B. Tordoff | Military service
In March 1919 Jones returned to Cambridge as a fellow of Emmanuel College and a member of staff of the Engineering Department. In October he was elected as the first Francis Mond Professor of Aeronautical Engineering in which position he remained until his retirement in 1952. At Cambridge the Air Ministry provided aircraft and flying facilities to develop a very successful school of aviation research. With characteristic modesty he said that he expected his small team, usually four, to work with him rather than for him. His work on stalls led to a great understanding of the phenomenon and greatly reduced accidents.
Melvill Jones | After First World War
Horace became interested in aviation late in life and was still flying – presumably from Brooklands – at least as late as 1930.
Horace Plunkett | Personal life
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Welcome to JFK | Personnel
Reynolds was an avid aviator like his older brother. The duo would practice takeoffs and landings on the ¾ mile front lawn of the Reynolda bungalow, and perform tricks in the air to terrify their sisters Mary and Nancy. After the success of Charles Lindbergh’s historic transatlantic flight in 1927, Dick Reynolds took on aviation as a business venture, buying the historic Roosevelt Field and founding airlines Reynolds Aviation and Camel City Flying Service. Smith Reynolds developed his passion after dropping out of school to work for Reynolds Aviation. He earned a pilot’s license at 16, attested to by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, and personally signed by Orville Wright.
Zachary Smith Reynolds | Aviation
Byron Quinby Jones (April 9, 1888 – March 30, 1959) was a pioneer aviator and an officer in the United States Army. Jones began and ended his career as a cavalry officer, but for a quarter century between 1914 and 1939, he was an aviator in the various organizations that were the Army's air arm. He appeared to be on track in the 1930s to becoming one of the senior commanders of the Air Corps, but his views on the role of airpower diverged from those of his Air Corps peers and he returned to the Army's ground forces at the beginning of World War II.
Byron Q. Jones | Introduction
John O. Isaacs, United Kingdom
List of aircraft (I) | <a href="John%20Isaacs%20%28UK%29">Isaacs</a>
Airliner Number 4 received widespread publicity and featured in "The Detroit News" in January 1933, drawn by J. L. Kraemer alongside photographs of other Geddes designs. Christopher Innes has written that the giant aircraft flown by the engineers and mechanics of Alexander Korda's 1936 film "Things to Come", based on the H. G. Wells novel "The Shape of Things to Come" (1933), resemble Geddes' designs in "Horizons". The starring role in the film was taken by Raymond Massey, who had acted in Geddes' production of "Hamlet". The design, or ideas circulating about large aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s, may also have influenced the design of Howard Hughes' huge 1947 Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose", but this has not been confirmed.
Airliner Number 4 | Publicity and legacy
He became an engineering instructor at the C-W Technical Institute in 1935, also serving as production manager for Spartan Aircraft Company during that time. From 1937 to 1940 he worked as a design engineer for Douglas Aircraft Company and also consulted for National Aircraft Company (San Antonio, Texas).
Herbert Rawdon | Aviation career
Although the airfield itself and the buildings to the east of the runways had been built on Henry Ford's personal property, it is unclear how the parcels across the county line that became the site of the bomber plant were assembled. In any event, Henry Ford (who, although technically retired from Ford Motor operations until Edsel's death from ungulant fever in 1943, still held a say in company affairs) had insisted on building the factory without government financing. Instead, the company built the factory, and sold it to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation's Defense Plant Corporation (RFC-DPC), which then leased it back to Ford for the duration of the war.
Willow Run Airport | Ownership changes
He was seriously concussed but otherwise escaped injury and he managed to open his chute in time.
Aircraft in fiction | Standard J
The Wings of Eagles is a 1957 American Metrocolor film starring John Wayne, Dan Dailey and Maureen O'Hara, based on the life of Frank "Spig" Wead and the history of U.S. Naval aviation from its inception through World War II. The film is a tribute to Wead (who died ten years earlier, in 1947, at the age of 52) from his friend, director John Ford, and was based on Wead's "We Plaster the Japs", published in a 1944 issue of "The American Magazine". John Wayne plays naval aviator-turned-screenwriter Wead, who wrote the story or screenplay for such films as "Hell Divers" (1931) with Wallace Beery and Clark Gable, "Ceiling Zero" (1936) with James Cagney, and the Oscar-nominated World War II drama "They Were Expendable" (1945) in which Wayne co-starred with Robert Montgomery.
The Wings of Eagles | Introduction
studied mechanical engineering at Stanford University (1946–50). After attending Harvard Business School (1950–52) he joined the US Air Force (1952–54) as an aircraft maintenance officer and worked in the Inland Steel Company's Indiana Harbor Works. He has a wife Catherine, three sons, and one daughter. He describes himself as an Episcopalian and a Republican.
Franklin Pitcher Johnson Jr. | Personal life
After this he joined the staff of the Aerodynamics Division of the National Physical Laboratory, staying there until his retirement in 1953.
Robert Jones (aerodynamicist) | Introduction
He held a commission as Air Pilot and often flew his own plane.
James J. Raby | Introduction
In 1909 Henry Ford lent three factory workers to his 15-year-old son Edsel, and Edsel's friend Charles Van Auken, to build a monoplane with a Model T engine. The Blériot XI inspired plane featured wing warping controls and a radiator perpendicular to the wind. The plane did not fly well in multiple test flights from the Fort Wayne parade grounds − the final flight ended in a tree − and the project was put aside. In World War I Ford went into the aircraft motor business with production of the Packard-designed Liberty engine for the military. Ford completed 3,950 Liberty engines.
Stout Metal Airplane | Early Ford aviation interest
He became interested in aviation since he felt it complemented his athletic mindset. He attended flight school in Corpus Christi, Texas then moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia. He had three children with Dorothy prior to his capture in Vietnam, Mike, David and Leslie.
Eugene McDaniel | Background
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Returning to the U.S. in June 1919, he was assigned to Mitchel Field on Long Island, New York. The following August he went to Speedway, Indiana, for duty as supply officer of the Aviation Repair Depot. In July 1920, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Service of the Regular Army and in September became a test officer at the Fairfield, Ohio, Air Intermediate Depot. In May 1922, he went to Washington, D.C. where he served as officer-in-charge of gasoline and oil supply systems in the Office of the Chief of Air Service. In 1923, he piloted one of the six Army planes that flew from the U.S.
Caleb V. Haynes | Air Service duty
By November 1918 and the armistice Holt Thomas was able to advertise that his was the largest aircraft company in the world. His companies built aeroplanes and their engines and propellors in large numbers and also airships and flying boats. He had the latest metal-working machinery, a laboratory for materials testing and a wind tunnel. Between 7,000 and 8,000 people were employed at Hendon. His companies turned out a new aircraft every 45 minutes. Hendon became a 'white elephant' which he endeavoured to sell to car manufacturers.
George Holt Thomas | Civil aviation
Jones was born after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, but as he learned about the men's work, he became devoted to them as heroic figures. He pinned photographs of the Kennedy brothers to a bulletin board in his room in the specially delineated "Kennedy Section". As a child, he matched his "Star Wars" action figures with Kennedy-era political figures; Luke Skywalker was John, Han Solo was Robert, and Lando Calrissian was Martin Luther King Jr. Jones graduated from Jackson Central-Merry High School, a public high school in his hometown, in 1986.
Van Jones | Early life and education
A 1/6 scale radio-controlled model of a Sopwith 1½ Strutter was constructed by Proctor Enterprises to appear in the ABC television series "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" episode "Attack of the Hawkmen" (1995) produced by George Lucas. A replica Sopwith 1½ Strutter featured in the 2006 film "Flyboys", a drama about the Lafayette Escadrille. The replica, built in 1992, was purchased from a private museum in Alabama.
Aircraft in fiction | Sopwith 1½ Strutter
Jones was assigned to the Army Air Service in 1920. He was assigned to Carlstrom Field, DeSoto County, Florida where he trained as a pilot. Jones graduated from flight school in April 1920, and thereafter was assigned to Post Field, Fort Sill, Oklahoma where he entered the Air Service Observation School from which he graduated in September 1921. Jones then remained at Fort Sill where he attended the United States Army Field Artillery School. Jones was formally transferred to the Army Air Service in November 1921, having risen to the rank of major. Jones was then assigned to Mitchell Field, Long Island, New York as air operations officer.
Junius Wallace Jones | Army Air Service
Harold R. Harris was born on 20 December 1895 in Chicago, Illinois, as a son of Ross Allen Harris and his wife Mae Plumb Harris. He showed an interest in aircraft at an early age, and at the age of 15 skipped school to attend the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field, the first ever air meet in the United States. As there were no aviation engineering courses yet available he studied mechanical engineering at the Throop College of Technology (later Caltech) in 1910 and 1911, graduating with a B.S. Because of World War I, in 1916 Harold R.
Harold R. Harris | Early years
Little did either of them know this was the beginning of a path that would lead to his career in aviation. One of the other notable children that hung around the garage was Dick Powell. Darnell also spent some time driving a traveling salesman around the area.
Gordon Darnell | Childhood and education
Manning continued to design aircraft, including the two biplanes for the War Office Aeroplane Competition in 1912.
William Oke Manning | Howard Wright
He soloed in a J-3 Piper Cub at the age of 68 and flew as a sport pilot until he turned 80. Office: 433 Bay Road, Durham NH 03824 USA.
Daniel Ford | Introduction
He continues to enjoy youth baseball and other sports. Ruark is a licensed private pilot so designated by the Federal Aviation Administration. He continues to enjoy flying and all aircraft.
Davis R. Ruark | Personal Life
Jones originally joined the United States Army Reserve in 1940 before transferring to the Air Corps. During World War II Jones served with the Far East Air Force. Following the war he was assigned to Air Force Material Command. In 1951 he was named Chairman of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet Production Committee. His retirement was effective as of June 1, 1957.
Harley Sanford Jones | Career
"Source:Gunston except where noted" Now under Honeywell management/design/production
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Lists of aviation topics | Introduction
The data in the following table is from Newton and Senning (1978).
Gerald R. Johnson | Aerial victory credits
His papers are archived at the Rhode Island Historical Society.
Jack McGee (aviator) | Archive
While still on duty at the Aviation School, Jones received a promotion on May 15, 1917, to captain, Field Artillery, in the first wave of officer promotions following the entry of the United States into World War I. At the beginning of June, he reported to the Office of the Chief Signal Officer (OCSO) in Washington, D.C. for temporary staff duty assisting Major Raynal Bolling in standardizing airplane specifications for the aviation services of the Army and the United States Navy preparatory to Bolling's mission to Europe on behalf of the Aircraft Production Board. On June 30, he reported to the newly leased aviation field at Mount Clemens, Michigan, soon renamed Selfridge Field, where he organized and commanded an aviation school.
Byron Q. Jones | World War I and the Air Service
With the help of stunt pilots Thorson also did aerobatic maneuvers in the L-39 Albatros fighter jet.
Celeste Thorson | Film and television
He fought for military recognition of the airplanes’ potential and was part of the group of officers who “lost favor” with the Army during the court martial of General Billy Mitchell. Cook served for many years as director and vice president of the American Legion National Aeronautics Commission in Indianapolis and was later the first American Legion National Director of Aviation. Cook became involved in recognizing the Wright Brothers’ contributions to flying. The Smithsonian did not recognize the brother’s flight at “Kitty Hawk” in 1903 as the first powered aircraft flight. Due to his dogged determination, the flight was eventually officially recognized in 1940 as the first powered flight.
Harvey Weir Cook | Between the wars