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James Clifford Turpin (6 May 1886 – January 1966) was a pioneer aviator with the Air and Space Magazine, February 2016 : "Clifford Turpin, King of the Air"
by Paul Glenshaw, Retrieved August 18, 2017
He died in January 1966. He was buried in Lothrop Hill Cemetery in
Washington's first airplane fatality occurs at the Meadows Race Track in Georgetown on May 30, 1912.
James Clifford Turpin (6 May 1886 – January 1966) was a pioneer aviator with the Wright Exhibition Team
The Wright Exhibition Team was a group of early aviators trained by the Wright brothers at Wright Flying School in Montgomery, Alabama in March 1910.
History
The group was formed in 1910 at the suggestion of balloonist Augustus Roy Knabenshue.
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.by Paul Glenshaw, Retrieved August 18, 2017
Biography
He was born on May 6, 1886. He attendedPurdue University
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ...
, the first graduate(class of 1908) to receive a pilot's license
Pilot licensing or certification refers to permits for operating aircraft. Flight crew licences are regulated by ICAO Annex 1 and issued by the civil aviation authority of each country. CAA’s have to establish that the holder has met a speci ...
. Turpin joined the Wright Exhibition team in 1910, flying demonstrations across the country. The group was disbanded in 1911. In May 1912, Turpin rented a Wright Model C for his own exhibitions. While flying his Fowler-Gage biplane in a Seattle stadium, Turpin clipped an iron railing whilst avoiding a cameraman, and veered into a grandstand, killing two spectators. After the death of his flying partner, Phil Parmalee
Philip Orin Parmelee (March 8, 1887 – June 1, 1912) was an American aviation pioneer trained by the Wright brothers and credited with several early world aviation records and "firsts" in flight. He turned a keen interest in small engines into ...
, in Yakima, Washington
Yakima ( or ) is a city in and the county seat of Yakima County, Washington, and the state's 11th-largest city by population. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 96,968 and a metropolitan population of 256,728. The uninco ...
, Turpin quit flying.
He died in January 1966. He was buried in Lothrop Hill Cemetery in Barnstable, Massachusetts
The Town of Barnstable ( ) is a town in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the county seat of Barnstable County. Barnstable is the largest community, both in land area and population, on Cape Cod, and is one of thirteen Massachusetts municipaliti ...
. Turpin reputedly was the father of one daughter.
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*Washington's first airplane fatality occurs at the Meadows Race Track in Georgetown on May 30, 1912.
References
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