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Flying Carpets, Flying Wings: The Biography of Moye W. Stephens

Barbara H. Schultz

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Description:Flying Carpets, Flying Wings is a biography about Moye W. Stephens, his friends, and his achievements in aviation. During the 1920s, Moye flew with Eddie Bellande, Howard Hughes, Allan Hancock, Jack Northrop, and many other notable aviators. This led to a career flying Ford trimotors for Maddux, TAT, and T & WA Airlines. From 1930 to 1932, Moye flew author Richard Halliburton around the world in a Stearman christened the Flying Carpet. In 1939, Moye was one of a select few who formed Northrop Corporation where he test flew several Northrop prototypes including the flying wing. His well researched and definitive biography spans nearly eighty years of aviation. Moye Stephens was emblematic of aviation’s “Golden Age,” the astonishing technological transition from the powered kites of early flight to the powerful war birds and long-distance aerial haulers of World War II. One of that small circle who made it happen during the 1920s and ‘30s, Stephens demonstrated the promise of aviation to a public both enthusiastic and skeptical, first by instructing would-be pilots (including Jack Northrop, whose company he would later help organize); then by serving fledgling airlines as a safe and resourceful captain; and finally by piloting popular adventure-travel writer Richard Halliburton on a globe-girdling, 18-month, aerial odyssey in a single-engine, open-cockpit, Stearman biplane called the Flying Carpet. Stephens’ life virtually spanned 20th century aviation: at age four he saw the 1910 Dominguez Air Meet; by the time he died in 1995, he knew that the N-1M Flying Wing he had test-piloted in 1940-42 (now in the Smithsonian at Dulles) was ancestor to Northrop’s B-2 Stealth Bomber. Stephens was a raconteur, and Schultz wisely bases much of her book around his riveting and often hilarious stories of flying incidents, other fliers and the extraordinary people encountered in the odd corners of the world of 1930-32 the Flying Carpet penetrated, like Timbuctoo, Persia, the slopes of Mt. Everest, and the jungles of Borneo. Beyond Stephens’ tales, Schultz treats the reader to a wealth of anecdotes about aviators and their interaction with the rich and/or famous of the Hollywood and southern California business and social scene of the 1920s and later, expanding on her earlier Pancho: The Biography of Florence Lowe Barnes. Her exhaustive research is reflected in a treasure trove of informatively captioned period photographs. Herself a pilot (member of the Ninety-Nines), her depiction of flying incidents is spot-on. A “must read” for the Golden Age aviation researcher and enthusiast. Ron Gilliam, Aviation Historian/AuthorWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Flying Carpets, Flying Wings: The Biography of Moye W. Stephens. To get started finding Flying Carpets, Flying Wings: The Biography of Moye W. Stephens, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 340

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Little Buttes Publishing Co.

Release: 2010

ISBN: 0965218120

Description: Flying Carpets, Flying Wings is a biography about Moye W. Stephens, his friends, and his achievements in aviation. During the 1920s, Moye flew with Eddie Bellande, Howard Hughes, Allan Hancock, Jack Northrop, and many other notable aviators. This led to a career flying Ford trimotors for Maddux, TAT, and T & WA Airlines. From 1930 to 1932, Moye flew author Richard Halliburton around the world in a Stearman christened the Flying Carpet. In 1939, Moye was one of a select few who formed Northrop Corporation where he test flew several Northrop prototypes including the flying wing. His well researched and definitive biography spans nearly eighty years of aviation. Moye Stephens was emblematic of aviation’s “Golden Age,” the astonishing technological transition from the powered kites of early flight to the powerful war birds and long-distance aerial haulers of World War II. One of that small circle who made it happen during the 1920s and ‘30s, Stephens demonstrated the promise of aviation to a public both enthusiastic and skeptical, first by instructing would-be pilots (including Jack Northrop, whose company he would later help organize); then by serving fledgling airlines as a safe and resourceful captain; and finally by piloting popular adventure-travel writer Richard Halliburton on a globe-girdling, 18-month, aerial odyssey in a single-engine, open-cockpit, Stearman biplane called the Flying Carpet. Stephens’ life virtually spanned 20th century aviation: at age four he saw the 1910 Dominguez Air Meet; by the time he died in 1995, he knew that the N-1M Flying Wing he had test-piloted in 1940-42 (now in the Smithsonian at Dulles) was ancestor to Northrop’s B-2 Stealth Bomber. Stephens was a raconteur, and Schultz wisely bases much of her book around his riveting and often hilarious stories of flying incidents, other fliers and the extraordinary people encountered in the odd corners of the world of 1930-32 the Flying Carpet penetrated, like Timbuctoo, Persia, the slopes of Mt. Everest, and the jungles of Borneo. Beyond Stephens’ tales, Schultz treats the reader to a wealth of anecdotes about aviators and their interaction with the rich and/or famous of the Hollywood and southern California business and social scene of the 1920s and later, expanding on her earlier Pancho: The Biography of Florence Lowe Barnes. Her exhaustive research is reflected in a treasure trove of informatively captioned period photographs. Herself a pilot (member of the Ninety-Nines), her depiction of flying incidents is spot-on. A “must read” for the Golden Age aviation researcher and enthusiast. Ron Gilliam, Aviation Historian/AuthorWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Flying Carpets, Flying Wings: The Biography of Moye W. Stephens. To get started finding Flying Carpets, Flying Wings: The Biography of Moye W. Stephens, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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