Walter Lees: PIONEER 1915 PILOT, CURTISS INSTRUCTOR, WWI INSTRUCTOR & TEST PILOT

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Walter Lees: PIONEER 1915 PILOT, CURTISS INSTRUCTOR, WWI INSTRUCTOR & TEST PILOT.
A black and white sepia photograph 4 X 5 that I purchased with a large number of photos I purchased many years ago from the estate of Pioneer aviator Charles McH. Pond.
LEES, Walter Edwin. PIONEER AVIATOR AND TEST PILOT.
(1887-1957). A mechanic with Benoist at St. Louis (1912-13)
[2101]
; Curtiss student at San Diego (1915)
[2101]
; Curtiss instructor at Buffalo NY, where he gained
Hydroaeroplane Cert.
no. 44
[2101]
; he remained a Curtiss instructor (1915-17), instructed Vernon Castle and Billy Mitchell (1916);
F.A.I./Aero Club of America Landplane Cert.
no. 660 (2-21-17)
[2150]
and
Aero Club of America Expert Aviator
Cert.
no. 79 (1917)
[2101]
; USAS chief flying instructor at numerous WWI training fields (1917-18)
[2143]
;
McCook Field
test pilot (1918)
[877] [2143]
; post-WWI positions with Curtiss, Johnson Airplane & Supply Co. and Styout (1919-25)
[2143]
; Transport Pilot
[2143]
; Packard Motor Car Co. Aeronautical Department (1925- )
[2143]
; test flew the first Packard deisel engine (1930)
[2143]
; civilian experimental test pilot at
McCook Field
OH (1918)
[2101]
; LT, USAS Reserve and, later, USNR Cdr
[2101]
; Curtiss demonstration and test pilot (1919-21)
[2101]
; flight tests of William B. Stout's Stout Air Sedan (1923)
[21]
; first flight of a deisel-powered aircraft, the Packard deisel-powered Stinson SM-1 DX, with designer L. M. Woolson aboard (1928)
[165]
; manager of LaGrange Aircraft Co., LaGrange OR (1920-21)
[2101]
; Dayton-Wright Aeroplane Co.,
Wright Field
OH as instructor and pilot (1922)
[2101]
; Johnson Flying Service (1922-24)
[2101]
; the ninth member of the "Caterpillar Club" after abandoning a German L. V. G. over
Johnson Field
, Dayton OH (1924)
[2101] [538]
; chief test pilot for Packard's deisel development (1925-35)
[2101]
; Transport Pilot rating no. 1086 (1928)
[1677]
; flew the Packard Motor Co. service plane, a Waco HTO, in the 1930
Edsel B. Ford Reliability Tour
[1005]
; with F. A. Brossy, after a previous unsuccessful attempt, a men's unrefueled American and world landplane endurance record, 74 hours 12 minutes, in a Packard diesel-powered Bellanca J-2 Pacemaker at Jacksonville FL (1931)
[520]
; world's nonrefueling endurance record, 84 hours 32 minutes 38.2 seconds, over Jacksonville FL, with Frederick A. Brossy, in a Packard diesel-powered Bellanca J-2 Pacemaker (1931)
[23] [0004] [2101] [520]
; Bendix (1935- )
[2101]
; recalled to active duty as a LCDR, USNR (1940-46)
[2101]
. (2nd LT, USAS & LCDR, USN.).
Please ignore the [brackets] as those numbers refer to my biographical database.
1-5891
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