Photos & Comments courtesy of Paul J. Hermann |
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Elling at the
wheel of his 1915 airplane that he and his brother Leonard put together. |
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Elling seated in an old biplane owned by O. E. Williams in Pennsylvania. |
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Elling and a primitive
biplane that he flew when he was with Williams in Pennsylvania. |
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The best and most often used photo of Elling with his 1915 homebuilt airplane that he flew around central Iowa as well as other places. |
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A photo of his airplane from the side, showing his airplane in full view. |
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A blurred photo of Elling on landing one of the airplanes he flew
for Williams. |
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Elling flying an old biplane when he was working for Williams. |
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Elling in the cockpit and my mother, Ellen Erickson,
Elling and my mother were first cousins because their respective mothers were sisters. According to
the old Norwegian style of naming children the first two boy children received the name of a grandfather and
then the patronymic, i.e., Oliversson for Elling since his grandfather was Elling Halverson
and his father was Oliver Weeks. as they are getting ready to fly off . My mother was to be a boy but she turned out to be a girl instead so instead of receiving the name Elling for her grandfather Elling Halverson she got the name Ellen which was as close as her parents could come to giving her the feminine version of Elling. |
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