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1921 - The first "air-to-air" refueling was made with Wesley May, with a 5-gallon can of gasoline strapped to his back, transferred from the wing of a Lincoln Standard, flown by Frank Hawks, to the wing skid of a JN-4, flown by Earl S. Daugherty, climbed to the engine, and poured the gasoline into the tank on November 12.

1924 - Adjutant Bonnet of the French Air Service sets a French speed record at Istres Airport: 241 MPH in a Ferbois-Bernard Monoplane on November 8. Glen Martin, Igor Sikorsky, Eddie Rickenbacker, Admiral Byrd, Donald Douglas, Sr., James Doolittle, H. Mansfield Horner, James McDonnell, Jr., Captain Dick Merrill and more recently, William M. Allen, Colonel John. A Macready, Jennings Randolph, Bennet H. Griffin, James Joseph Mattern, Major General Leigh Wade, USAF (Ret.), Olive Ann Beech, Cass. S. Hough and Jerry Lederer are among the 82 aviation leaders previously named as Elder Statesmen of Aviation by NAA.