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Related by: Mrs. Elwood J. Junkin (nee Hattie Meyers, Glen Ridge, N. J.)
4 South Whitehall Blvd.,
Garden City, L. I. N. Y.
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1925. - 1897 March 4, ELWOOD J. JUNKIN nickname "SAM"
Drayton, North Dakota.

1907 built first large glider; agre sixteen designed first airplane. (Father was designer of farm machinery, dredges etc. Motor man.) Due to rheumatic fever age 16, growth 6 ft. 2 1/2 in., "Sam" refused for war service. Worked as aircraft designer with Glenn Martin, Cleveland, Ohio; met "Buck" pre-war both at Aeromarine Plane & Motor and L. W. F. Airplane Co. No one dared call E. J. Elwood, excpet his Mother. 

1925 June. Married HATTIE MEYERS WEAVER, with son (Geo. Chas. Weaver (Flu baby - born Dec. 12, 1918))

Winston-Salem, N. Carolina, home of bride's brother Charles Wm Meyers, RFC flyer, 1917-18; builder of model aircraft like "Buck" and "Sam"; of gliders and assembly work pre-war plants building aircraft. 

Hattie - Met "Buck" thru brother, Charles. 1927 Chas, Meyers won the N. Y. to Los Angeles Ford Reliability Tour in a WACO Ten; became Cape. Eastern Airlines, (ret'rd.) E. J. Junkin, taught to fly by Phil Gimbel.

1925 Company was known as Advance Aircraft Co; closed corp; Product WACO Airplanes. Name changed to ADVANCE AIRCRAFT CO., Corp. E. J. JUNKIN, President ADVANCE AIRCRAFT CO., TROY, OHIO

Pilots always called Co. WACO Aircraft, hence change, in 1929. Vice-Pres. - CLAYTON J. BRUKNER, school chum; skilled mechanic; pioneered welding; jigs and dies;

Alden Sampson - Mass. young man; Corp formed in Mass, under (later) Ohio charter. C. J. B. taught to fly in 1922 by "Buck." "Sam" owned controlling interest. 

died 12/21/77 ENDCARDITUS

1926 - Mch - Elwood J. Junkin has a severe heart attack from which he never recovered, dying Oct. 31, 1926

From his bed "SAM" directed the 25 employees, all slowly trained; no one roof under which to work; the folloring culminated a shoe-string dedication of the three men to a million dollar business. In "Sam's" handwriting:

LABOR
[[2 columned table]]
Category|Amount of money|
Average wage|35 cents hr. (highest in town of 3 industries)|
No. employees|35|
Tot. hrs per wk|2000|
Ships per wk|2|
Hrs. per ship|1000|
Labor "   "|$350.00|
Materials per|$900.00|
Overhead per ship|$50.00|

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