GEORGE RUSSELL CLARK 1894-1976

Dayton Reunion, 1972 From CHIRP, January, 1973

 

NEW EB MEMBER George Russell Clark was born on April 24, 1894 at Flint, Michigan. He learned to fly at the Curtiss Flying School at Hammondsport, N. Y., on a Curtiss flying boat powered by an OX2 motor, under flying instructor Francis A. "Doc" Wildman. He made his first solo flight on June 9, 1914, in a Curtiss flying boat at Lake Fenton, Michigan. For some time thereafter, Mr. Clark piloted a Curtiss flying boat owned by Mr. J. B. Armstrong.      Mr. Clark later became foreman of the Buick experimental Division of the General Motors Corporation and assisted in the building of LIBERTY Motors. He retired April 30, 1959, after more than forty years service with that corporation. His address is 9010 North State Road, Otisville, Mich. From The Early Birds of Aviation CHIRP October 1962, Number 69

 

EARLY BIRD MEETING, WISCONSIN, 1969 You will find the story of the meeting by clicking on: George Clark

 

George Russell Clark died in 1976 From The Early Birds of Aviation Roster, 1996

 

Back