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PANORAMA
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WRIGHT-PATTERSON

FIRST ISSUE
FOX HUNT
VOL. 1, No. 1  December 12, 1936  4 cents

EARHART COCHRAN HERE
Two of the United State's foremost women pilots, Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam and Mrs. Jacqueline Cochran, landed at Wright Field last Monday and stayed over night.  The purpose of their visit was to have a radio-compass installed in Mrs. Putnam's sleek, low-winged, Lockheed, "flying laboratory".  Mrs. Cochran acted as co-pilot.

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OFFICER DECORATED
Capt. F.G. Irvin was presented with the Distinguished Flying Cross by General A.W. Robins, chief of the Materiel division, in the Wright Field Auditorium at 11:00 a.m., Thursday, December 10, before an uniformed assembly of all officers attached to Wright Field.
General Robins, in an informal speech before the officers present said:  "It is 
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AVIATRIX LEAVES — Amelia Earhart yesterday resumed her trip to the coast to meet her husband, M. P. Punam, executive in Major Pictures, Inc., after lunching with Manila Davis, wife of Capt. B. B. Talley of Wright field.  Miss Davis who belongs to the national organization for women pilots, is active in aviation circles and today will meet Ruth Nichols, society aviatrix, from Rye, N. Y., who will speak at a luncheon at the Engineers' club.
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Tuesday morning
Mrs. Putnam took a short flight to check her new compass and on landing she reported that it was "entirely satisfactory".  Both women then had lunch at the Club as guests of Capt. and Mre. B.B. Talley then two of America's flyin'est gals took off - and pardon the chinese accent.
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Amelia Earhart Putnam and her co-pilot, Jacqualine Cochran, who were in Dayton this week, were guests of Mrs. B. B. Talley of Poterson field Monday at luncheon at the Officers' club.
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