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America's Greatest ACROBATIC FLYERS AND STUNTMEN OF THE AIR! [[image]] HOLLYWOOD TRIO PAUL MANZ - FRANK CLARK - EASTON NOBLE This unsurpassed team of stunt and acrobatic flyers has done practically all of the intricate and highly technical flying for many of the marvelous motion picture epics of the air produced by Hollywood's major studios. You've seen them many times on the screen...you've "Oh'd and Ah'd" at their daring performances...Today the 1936 National Air Races brings them to you in person...these veterans of loops, spins, rolls and stunts...doing things with their sleep planes that you will long remember. DICK GRANERE Canadian world war ace...sponsored by Chevrolet Motor Company...does hilariously funny novelty acts...crazy flying, comedy stunting...great favorite with the throngs of spectators at the 1935 National Air Races in Cleveland. MAJOR AL WILLIAMS HERE'S a flyer well known to every aviation enthusiast and the general public...the flying hero of American boys and recognized as the leader in beautiful precision flying by aviation experts. Received his training in Naval aviation and played an important part in the development of amphibian planes. Noted for his ability to develop and fly high speed ships...worked long and untiringly to perfect engine refinements making upside-down flying practical. Al Williams is one of America's leading aces and most beautiful stunt flyers, and held the world's speed championship for eight years. His extraordinary flying ability, coupled with his highly trained engineering mind, makes his performances in the air geometrically beautiful, as all his turns, rolls and intricate maneuvers are executed with mathematical precision, perfect control and flawless judgement. Major Williams is a tall, serious-minded, modest chap who would rather fly than eat. His hobby is teaching the younger generation the wonders of aviation. No matter how busy he may be he can always find time to carefully and enthusiastically answer the most simple question of his youngest admirers, on any aeronautical subject that is puzzling them. [[image]] PAUL MANTZ Widely known movie stunt pilot, was technical director of the film, "Ceiling Zero," and is technical advisor to Amelia Earhart. MILO BURCHAM recently returned from an extended tour of the leading countries of Europe, where he triumphantly won new laurels as one of the outstanding acrobatic fliers in the world. Holds the international championship for inverted flying...trained for his record upside-down flight of four hours by hanging, head down, in a chair attached to a porch ceiling...read magazines to pass the time...once made forced landing in a field of cattle...unscratched in landing but lost pants in getting away from irate cows through barbed wire fence. Burcham is a short wave radio fan and keeps contact with friends all over the world via the ether waves...one of the recognized short wave radio experts on the Pacific Coast...has the only privately owned Boeing Army plane, which he uses for stunting. Was acclaimed by the spectators at the 1935 National Air Races in Cleveland as one of America's most entertaining and spectacular acrobatic flyers. HAROLD JOHNSON puts a huge tri-motored Ford transport plane through paces that many a seasoned pilot would hesitate to attempt in a small stunt plane. Rolls, loops, spins and turns...intricate stunts and acrobatics of the air...and he does it with all the ease, grace, control and accuracy of a perfectly poised eagle soaring through the sky. [[image]] 1936 NATIONAL AIR RACES PAGE 43
