Son of Valentine Green Biffle and Mytilda Emeline (Berry) Biffle.
Ira enlisted in the Signal Corps where he learned to fly. He went to San Diego's North Island Rockwell Field where he became an instructor teaching Pilots in the Army Air Corps. He then became an Airmail pilot.
He returned to teaching in Lincoln, Nebraska where he gave Col. Charles A. Lindbergh his first eight lessons in flying. In Lindbergh's book "We", he referred to Biffle as "the most hard-boiled instructor the Army ever had during the war".
Ira then returned to flying as an Airmail pilot. He was involved in the first commercial transcontinental mail flight. Charles R. Walgreen hired Ira as a commercial pilot to chauffer him to events for his Walgreen's pharmacy company.
Ira enlisted in the Signal Corps where he learned to fly. He went to San Diego's North Island Rockwell Field where he became an instructor teaching Pilots in the Army Air Corps. He then became an Airmail pilot.
He returned to teaching in Lincoln, Nebraska where he gave Col. Charles A. Lindbergh his first eight lessons in flying. In Lindbergh's book "We", he referred to Biffle as "the most hard-boiled instructor the Army ever had during the war".
Ira then returned to flying as an Airmail pilot. He was involved in the first commercial transcontinental mail flight. Charles R. Walgreen hired Ira as a commercial pilot to chauffer him to events for his Walgreen's pharmacy company.
Son of Valentine Green Biffle and Mytilda Emeline (Berry) Biffle.
Ira enlisted in the Signal Corps where he learned to fly. He went to San Diego's North Island Rockwell Field where he became an instructor teaching Pilots in the Army Air Corps. He then became an Airmail pilot.
He returned to teaching in Lincoln, Nebraska where he gave Col. Charles A. Lindbergh his first eight lessons in flying. In Lindbergh's book "We", he referred to Biffle as "the most hard-boiled instructor the Army ever had during the war".
Ira then returned to flying as an Airmail pilot. He was involved in the first commercial transcontinental mail flight. Charles R. Walgreen hired Ira as a commercial pilot to chauffer him to events for his Walgreen's pharmacy company.
Ira enlisted in the Signal Corps where he learned to fly. He went to San Diego's North Island Rockwell Field where he became an instructor teaching Pilots in the Army Air Corps. He then became an Airmail pilot.
He returned to teaching in Lincoln, Nebraska where he gave Col. Charles A. Lindbergh his first eight lessons in flying. In Lindbergh's book "We", he referred to Biffle as "the most hard-boiled instructor the Army ever had during the war".
Ira then returned to flying as an Airmail pilot. He was involved in the first commercial transcontinental mail flight. Charles R. Walgreen hired Ira as a commercial pilot to chauffer him to events for his Walgreen's pharmacy company.
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