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• 50, 000 hours
in the air, the equivalent to about six years
• Nearly 200 solo flights across the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans
• First light plane flight New York to Paris
in 1954 since Lindbergh
• Set an intercollegiate high jump record of 6 feet
8 1/2 inches in 1931 at the age of 28
• Taught more than 3000 people to fly
• Saved a number of lives in the 1940 Armistice
Day blizzard
• Wrote book describing his Atlantic crossings,
"Green Water"
• Trained
44 airline captains in his Civilian Trainers Program
in the 40"s -more than 350 Navy, Army, Air
Force, and Marine pilots and 56 licensed mechanics
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Broke almost every record possible in a light
plane including around the world in eight days
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