Word: airstruck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Airstruck since boyhood, Wheeler chose flying over the family business; his father, John H. Wheeler, is president of Durham's prosperous Mechanics and Farmers Bank. Young Wheeler left North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University after a year, enrolled in flying school in Oklahoma, and got a commercial license at 19. At 22, he was hired by Piedmont as one of its youngest-and first black-pilots. A few years later, he took a leave of absence to start a charter flying service, partly with loans from the Small Business Administration. In August 1973 he drew up a schedule...
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