WORLD RECORDS

Just Before takeoff on 'Round-The-World' Solo Flight June 13, 1933 Photo Courtesy of Bill Kirchner

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY by email from Jack Mattern      Jimmie wrote a trilogy of his flying experiences under the title "Cloud Country." Book 1 was: 'Wings of Youth,' Book 2 was: 'Hawaii to Hollywood,' Book 3 was: 'Lost in Siberia.' published by the Pure Oil Company for listeners to the Radio Show, 'The Diary of Jimmie Mattern.'

Book One & Book Two Collection of Bill Kirschner, 9-1-05

 

Mattern's Famous World Flight Story Will be Told for the First Time in Book Three. Photo Courtesy of Bill Kirchner

Book Three Collection of Laura Badtke, 6-28-05

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Jimmie Mattern", using the Google search engine, (7-30-06), you will find about 331 links! Perhaps the most helpful is the following.

Guide to the James J. "Jimmie Mattern" Collection      This pdf file on the website of the Special Collections Department, McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas, offers a very comprehensive and detailed biography of his life and career. It is especially valuable in that it revues many of his attempts at breaking records. You can access the site by clicking on the title above.

 

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