I found this in the May 1, 1924 This article states that Kennewick today presents the aspects of a regular aviation base. During the forenoon, five planes were on the flying field, while a sixth was being repaired at the garage of the Service Auto company. Nick Mamer is overhauling his disabled ship; Cecil Landon of Spokane is en route to the Blossom Festival at Wenatchee; Vern Eickner's scout plane is anchored on the field; Vernon Bookwalter, aviator of Couer'd Adlene, Idaho, is headed to California. The article stated all of the aviators are highly complimentary of the Kennewick field and believe that if the proper effort is made there is an excellent chance of having the national guard aviation school located here. Article of Kennewick Courier Reporter, May 22, 1927 Mr. and Mrs. W. B Mamer and M. Graves arrived from Couer d' Alene and are assembling a new plane which they will fly out of here in a couple of days. Article from Kenn Courier on July 24, 1930 Out of the sky Wednesday morning, July 30, at ten o'clock will come to land on the Franklin county municipal airfield at Pasco, the largest single fleet of airplanes ever banded together in one troupe in the Pacific Northwest. From forty to fifty planes will make up the fleet and this will include a stunting team of twelve planes, three from the army, three from the navy, three from the marines, and three civilian planes. They are to put on an hour show that is said to be as good as can be seen anywhere in the United States, The occasion will be the first annual tour of the Pacific Northwest States Air Tour Association. It will stop at 22 cities in the three northwest states. Pasco being one of four stops east of the mountains in this state. The fleet will arrive here about ten o'clock from Yakima and depart four hours later for Spokane. New motors, new airplanes, new instruments, new designs, all showing the phenomenal development of aviation in the last two years will be brought here. Each plane represented will be of a different model and the group will offer an opportunity for anyone to gain a definite idea of the progress that has been made in airplane building. They will be on display for the time they are here and people will be permitted to inspect them. The planes will range from the huge tri-motored transports to the tiny moth. An amphibian and a tri-motored Fokker will probably be among the entries. Among the famous fliers included as pilots will be six nationally well-known ones, headed be Miss Dorothy Hester, 19-year-old girl student of Tex Rankin's, who was the first woman to do the dangerous outside loop and the upside down outside spin, another difficult maneuver. Miss Hester holds the record for outside loops for women and in a recent exhibition at Kelso, she won first from seven men pilots. Edith Foltx one of the seven women pilots in the united States to hold transport licenses, and winner in important air races last year, will pilot a light plane and give a short exhibition of stunting. There will be Nick Mamer from Spokane, famous for his refueling flight around the country in the "Sun God." Mamer will fly a giant Ford Monoplane in the tour. Tex Rankin, genial Texan whose drawl is known to every pilot in the country, famous for his three flag flight from Canada to Mexico, his country derbies, his outside loops and his work on national committees for the promotion of aviation will fly his own ship in the tour and will be one of the star performers of the commercial stunting team. Gordon Mounce, California pilot who recently set a world's record for outside loops with 22 in one flight, has been signed to do outside loops over the airports, along with Tex Rankin, whose record he bettered. Mounce is an expert stunt pilot also. Walter Case, a Varney Air Mail pilot whose blind flying exhibition recently was praised as an expert, will also fly a plane with the other commercial groups. He recently took off from the airport in Portland, flew through several maneuvers in the air, and landed the plane without seeing the ground since a hood was used to cover his cockpit. An assistant was in the other cockpit in case of an accident, but he never touched the controls once. |
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