US aviator born in Marshalltown, Iowa, who was initially a military pilot for the US Air Force. (1917-1919), performed many pioneering and heroic flights and set numerous speed records including transcontinental. He was a Lieutenant Aviator in World War I participating in several combat missions (1917).
He flew with Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) on her first flight (1920) and achieved her first transcontinental record in 18 hours and 21 minutes. He recorded his definitive record in uninterrupted flight East-West of the country, on June 2nd (1933), flying in his Northrop Gamma aircraft, direct from Los Angeles to Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York, in 13 hours, 26 minutes, 15 seconds, with an average speed of 181 miles per hour.
Believing speed as the only reason for the plane's popularization as a means of transport, he died in a crash of a small experimental plane, a Gwinn Aircar, in East Aurora, Erie County, New York, on August 23 (1938).
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