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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.
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.
B.H. DeLay performed at least half a dozen stunt firsts for the movies, including the first change from plane to train and train to plane. Another DeLay first was from saddle to plane, as well as auto to plane. "Daredevil" DeLay was the first to knock down a building with a plane on screen as well.
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 ...
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]
Ormer Locklear was a pioneer of stunt flying. He joined the United States Army Air Service in October 1917 after the American entry into World War I. Pilot Cadet Locklear was flying with his instructor. He had to interpret a message being flashed to him from the ground to pass a test, but the wing and engine housing blocked his view.
Associated Motion Picture Pilots (AMPP) was a union of aviators who worked as stunt pilots in the Hollywood film industry. The group, one of the first unions in film work, was organized by Pancho Barnes in 1931 [1] and formally established on January 4, 1932. [2] It established "a virtual monopoly on motion picture flying". [3]