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"King of the Air" Frank Clarke Flys Airplane Off of L.A. Railway Building for Stranger Than Fiction Film

Posted by Shawna Kelly (Archiving Editor) on Wednesday, December 22, 2021, In : Aviator Actor 



Trailblazing Stunt Pilot Was the Stuff Movies Are Made of
L.A. Times Staff Writer

Barnstorming pilots were the daredevil missionaries of aviation's pioneering era, and none of them did more for the cause than Los Angeles' Frank Clarke. He melded two of the world's, and the city's, most promising new technologies: flight and film.

In 1920, thousands of Angelenos watched transfixed as the "king of stunt pilots" took wing from the roof of the Railway Building in a Jenny biplane, whose parts he had ...


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Aviator Actor Al Wilson

Posted by Shawna Kelly (Editing & Archiving) on Sunday, December 19, 2021, In : Aviator Actor 

Al Wilson: Barnstormer

Al Wilson, a true barnstorming legend.


Al Wilson, born 1 December 1895, was a true barnstormer.  He spent his life taking part in stunts that would make a grown man quake in his boots.  Born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Wilson was passionate about aviation from an early age.  Wilson’s family moved to Southern California when he was young, where he continued dreaming about learning to fly.  He got his first taste of airplanes when he started at Schiller Aviation School, working as a maint...


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Shawna Kelly Shawna Kelly, whose aerial courage includes skydiving at 10,000 feet, was inspired to write by her medal award-winning writer relative, Bliss Carman. She is also the great granddaughter of Daredevil DeLay, innovator of several aerial firsts for motion pictures and one of the aviators who gave his life performing --for our brave inspiration.

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