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Arthur Everett Scholl (December 24, 1931 – September 16, 1985) was an American aerobatic pilot, aerial cameraman, flight instructor and educator based in Riverside, Southern California. He died during the filming of Top Gun when his Pitts S-2 camera plane failed to recover from a spin and plunged into the Pacific Ocean.
Marc Harold Wolff (born 25 August 1947) is an American helicopter stunt pilot. Early life. Wolff was born in Chicago. He grew up and went to school in New Jersey. [1]
Frank Gifford Tallman III (April 17, 1919 in East Orange, New Jersey – April 15, 1978 in Santiago Peak, Trabuco Canyon, California) was a stunt pilot who worked in Hollywood during the 1960s and 1970s. He was the son of Frank Gifford Tallman, Jr. (1894 – 1952) and Inez Evelyn Foster (1894 – 1982).
The barnstormers subcategory is for those stunt pilots who traveled around, putting on shows and giving rides where they could. This category is for those who were more fixed, usually in Hollywood. However, some individuals belong in both categories, starting out as barnstormers and then finding more permanent jobs.
Frank Clarke (29 December 1898 – 12 June 1948) was a Hollywood stunt pilot, actor, [1] and military officer. His most prominent role was as Leutnant von Bruen (and double for von Richthofen in combat scenes) in the 1930 production Hell's Angels , but he flew for the camera and performed stunts in more than a dozen films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Richard Virgil Grace (October 1, 1898 – June 25, 1965), known as Dick Grace, was an American stunt pilot who specialized in crashing planes for films.Films that he appeared in include Sky Bride, The Lost Squadron, Lilac Time, and the first Best Picture Oscar winner Wings.
Jim LeRoy (April 5, 1961 – July 28, 2007) was an American aerobatics pilot. He died upon impact in a crash at the Dayton Air Show in Ohio. ... Stunt flying ...
Charles Willis "Speed" Holman (December 27, 1898 – May 17, 1931) was an American stunt pilot, barnstormer, wing walker, parachutist, airmail pilot, record-holding aviator, and airline pilot. Born in Bloomington , Minnesota, in 1926 he became the first pilot hired by Northwest Airways and later its first operations manager. [ 2 ]