Mike served in the Navy in WWI. He had been a pre-med student and served as a Hospital Apprentice 1st Class on the troop ship USS Rijndam.
He was a partner in Aircraft Associates in Long Beach. They manufactured 22 J-2 Western Cubs between 1936 and 1938. He had been seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, but had left his sick bed to make a series of demonstration flights in a small canary yellow monoplane. According to a newspaper article, he had been executing "wing-overs" at a height of 600 feet near the airport in Salinas on May 8, 1936. When he failed to pull the aircraft under control, it whirled rapidly four times and struck on its nose in a lettuce field adjoining the airport. He was critically injured and died the same day.
He was a partner in Aircraft Associates in Long Beach. They manufactured 22 J-2 Western Cubs between 1936 and 1938. He had been seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, but had left his sick bed to make a series of demonstration flights in a small canary yellow monoplane. According to a newspaper article, he had been executing "wing-overs" at a height of 600 feet near the airport in Salinas on May 8, 1936. When he failed to pull the aircraft under control, it whirled rapidly four times and struck on its nose in a lettuce field adjoining the airport. He was critically injured and died the same day.
Mike served in the Navy in WWI. He had been a pre-med student and served as a Hospital Apprentice 1st Class on the troop ship USS Rijndam.
He was a partner in Aircraft Associates in Long Beach. They manufactured 22 J-2 Western Cubs between 1936 and 1938. He had been seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, but had left his sick bed to make a series of demonstration flights in a small canary yellow monoplane. According to a newspaper article, he had been executing "wing-overs" at a height of 600 feet near the airport in Salinas on May 8, 1936. When he failed to pull the aircraft under control, it whirled rapidly four times and struck on its nose in a lettuce field adjoining the airport. He was critically injured and died the same day.
He was a partner in Aircraft Associates in Long Beach. They manufactured 22 J-2 Western Cubs between 1936 and 1938. He had been seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, but had left his sick bed to make a series of demonstration flights in a small canary yellow monoplane. According to a newspaper article, he had been executing "wing-overs" at a height of 600 feet near the airport in Salinas on May 8, 1936. When he failed to pull the aircraft under control, it whirled rapidly four times and struck on its nose in a lettuce field adjoining the airport. He was critically injured and died the same day.
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His birth year is listed as 1895 in most records, but as 1896 in others.
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