VA Vol 7 No 3 Mar 1979
a prep school, and completed one year in college before the advent of World War II attracted my at tention. Volunteering into the Army Air Corps cadet program, I reached Maxwell Field, Alabama to be transferred into British Flying Training School #5 in Clewiston, Florida, earned both Air Corps and RAF STRAIGHT AND LEVEL wings; was then moved to Great Falls, Montana as a ferry pilot with the Air Transport Command, flying fighters, twins and multi-engine aircraft throughout the World War II period. Following the war period, I returned to North Carolina, married, completed college, and established a hosiery manufacturing business in Pilot Mountain, By Brad Thorn as North Carolina, where I continue to reside with my family. Aviation is my hobby, beginning in the early thirties with model building and progressing to the present, with my spare time devoted toward EM, our Division, and maintaining my homebuilts, single engine "tra With the excellent guidance available from the Offi velling" aircraft, and my most recent project, a 1937 cers, Directors, and Advisors of our Division, we will D-17R Beech Staggerwing. My interest in aviation con strive to serve the membership, EM and all aviation tinues to increase throughout the years. The fellow with the expertise available to fulfill the purpose of ship, fly-ins, local EM Chapter #8, our Antique Chap this Division: ter #3 (NC-SC-VA), our EM Antique/Classic Division 1. to encou rage and aid the retention and restora - all contribute to my high regard for those whose tion of antique, historical and classic aircraft; interest lies in aviation.
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