Weldon Heyburn, Dick Merrill and Paula Stone in Atlantic Flight (1937)
Caption: Weldon Heyburn, Dick Merrill and Paula Stone in Atlantic Flight (1937)
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Actor
Born: February 1, 1894
Star sign: Aquarius
Source: IMDB
These days, it's a little hard to imagine the celebrity status once given to pilots, but for the generation prior to WW2, pioneer aviators were revered like astronauts were in the 1960's. While not as famous as Charles Lindbergh or Amelia Earhart, Henry Tyndall "Dick" Merrill ranked as a world-famous pilot by the 1930s - most notable for the 1936 ...