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Dorothy Hester Hofer Stenzel (September 14, 1910 – February 25, 1991) was an American aviator and stunt pilot. She had a groundbreaking stunt aerobatics career, often performing as "Princess-Kick-a-Hole-in-the-Sky", and later opened her own flight school in Cornelius, Oregon.
In December 1921, she began five months of training with pilot Lt. Billy Brock, former World War I pilot and barnstormer. [2] She performed daring stunts and achieved great public acclaim. She was the first woman to change from a speeding automobile to an airplane. [3]
He was taught by James Guy Haizlip, a famous stunt pilot. Carleton, Haizlip, and Roy O. Hunt, one of the nation's top stunt pilots, barnstormed throughout the state of Oklahoma during the late 1920s. Carleton was a quick study and soloed in an OX Waco-9 in only two and one half hours of flight instruction and then earned his Private Pilot ...
There is no record about how a Willows-based pilot became a Hollywood stunt pilot but Floyd Nolta did so before World War II. He was a stunt pilot for The Bride Came C.O.D., starring James Cagney and Bette Davis. Nolta also leased his Bellanca Senior Skyrocket (NC14700) airplane to Warner Brothers for the 1941 production. It was one of only ...
It's pretty amazing that anyone can fly an airplane in the first place. But for an exceptionally skilled and extremely nervy pilots, plain old straightforward flight isn't thrilling enough ...
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.
Osterud graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in 1964, and then attended Reed College in Portland, OR, graduating in 1968 with a degree in political science. [8] [9] She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and wrote her senior thesis on science and public policy, but discovered a love of physics late in college while working on the installation of the Reed reactor, and was one of the ...
Wolff was drafted into the US Army and sent to flight school. [1] At 21 he became the youngest captain in the army. [2] During the Vietnam War, he flew helicopters. [3] In his military career, he won 22 awards of the Air Medal, and a Bronze Star.