Word: gehlbach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last things Test Pilot James H. ("Jimmy") Collins did before his final, fatal power dive was to list the crack U.S. test pilots. High on his list was Lee Gehlbach of Great Lakes Aircraft Corp., whom Collins rated "one of the ablest in the field" (TIME, April 1). Few weeks ago able Pilot Gehlbach announced he would take Jimmy Collins' risky place testing a new Navy fighter for Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. at Farmingdale...
...Gehlbach, test pilot for Great Lakes Aircraft Corp., well-known racing pilot. Collins rated him "one of the ablest in the field...
Speed Record. Lee Gehlbach of Detroit took up his Wasp-engined Wedell- Williams Special for a try at Major James H. Doolittle's land plane speed record of 294.38 m.p.h., failed to crack it. Another Wedell-Williams behaved differently when its designer, one-eyed James R. Wedell, took it up. Over a three-kilometer course he definitely broke the land plane record at 305.33 m.p.h...
...Aerol Trophy races at the end of the meet, designers had been working for a year, building fat little craft with stubby low wings. Into the California dawn roared five such craft: Clair Vance's Flying Wing, Jimmy Wedell, Jimmy Haizlip and Roscoe Turner in Wedell-Williams Speedsters, Lee Gehlbach in a stubby "Gee-Bee" (Granville Bros.). Over the Mojave Desert Vance had to drop out his cockpit awash with gasoline from a leaking tank...
Derby. Pilot Lee Gehlbach, whose low-wing Command-Aire set the pace throughout most of the All-American Air Derby (TIME, Aug. 4) finished an easy winner at Detroit last week, took the $15,000 first prize. His elapsed time for the 5,541-mi. flight around the continent: 43 hr. 35 min. 30 sec. Lowell Bayless, flying a Gee-Bee biplane, came second, four hours slower; Charles Meyers in a Great Lakes, third. Eight of the original 18 starters were forced to abandon the race...