Race car driver
Hellings raced four times in the Indianapolis 500, each year from 1948 to 1951. His best year was 1948, when he finished in fifth place.
On Nov. 11, 1951, Hellings was a passenger on a small private place that took off in bad weather from Brackett Field airport in Pomona, Calif., heading for San Mateo, Calif., where Hellings was scheduled to race at the Bay Meadows track. The other occupants of the plane were Bob Barker, another race car driver; photographer George Lee Harvey Jr.; and the pilot, Robert Harris, a supervisor at Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, Calif.
The wreckage of the plane and the bodies of the four men were found on Nov. 15, at the 4,000-foot level in the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, Calif.
Barker was buried next to Hellings.
Hellings raced four times in the Indianapolis 500, each year from 1948 to 1951. His best year was 1948, when he finished in fifth place.
On Nov. 11, 1951, Hellings was a passenger on a small private place that took off in bad weather from Brackett Field airport in Pomona, Calif., heading for San Mateo, Calif., where Hellings was scheduled to race at the Bay Meadows track. The other occupants of the plane were Bob Barker, another race car driver; photographer George Lee Harvey Jr.; and the pilot, Robert Harris, a supervisor at Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, Calif.
The wreckage of the plane and the bodies of the four men were found on Nov. 15, at the 4,000-foot level in the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, Calif.
Barker was buried next to Hellings.
Race car driver
Hellings raced four times in the Indianapolis 500, each year from 1948 to 1951. His best year was 1948, when he finished in fifth place.
On Nov. 11, 1951, Hellings was a passenger on a small private place that took off in bad weather from Brackett Field airport in Pomona, Calif., heading for San Mateo, Calif., where Hellings was scheduled to race at the Bay Meadows track. The other occupants of the plane were Bob Barker, another race car driver; photographer George Lee Harvey Jr.; and the pilot, Robert Harris, a supervisor at Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, Calif.
The wreckage of the plane and the bodies of the four men were found on Nov. 15, at the 4,000-foot level in the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, Calif.
Barker was buried next to Hellings.
Hellings raced four times in the Indianapolis 500, each year from 1948 to 1951. His best year was 1948, when he finished in fifth place.
On Nov. 11, 1951, Hellings was a passenger on a small private place that took off in bad weather from Brackett Field airport in Pomona, Calif., heading for San Mateo, Calif., where Hellings was scheduled to race at the Bay Meadows track. The other occupants of the plane were Bob Barker, another race car driver; photographer George Lee Harvey Jr.; and the pilot, Robert Harris, a supervisor at Lockheed Aircraft in Burbank, Calif.
The wreckage of the plane and the bodies of the four men were found on Nov. 15, at the 4,000-foot level in the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, Calif.
Barker was buried next to Hellings.
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