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This collection consist of newspaper clippings concerning air travel, air mail routes, and Roscoe Turner's activities as airfield manager. There is also a chronology of the inventions which became Richard E. Byrd Flying Field.

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Richard E. Byrd Flying Field (Va.).

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Mongin, Alfred

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Turner, Roscoe, 1895-1970

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Roscoe Turner (1895-1970) was born and raised in Corinth, Mississippi. He learned to fly airplanes in France during World War I while attached to the American Second Army. After the war he ran a flying circus, barnstormed at air shows and state fairs, flew the first flying store and owned the Roscoe Turner Flying Service, 1926-1929. He also did stunt flying in movies. In 1929 he operated Nevada Airlines, the first high speed airline. Roscoe Turner was the only aviator to win the Thompson and Hen...