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GLENN LUTHER MARTIN

Born: January 17, 1886    In: Macksburg, IA
Died: December 5, 1955    In: Baltimore, MD

At the disgust he taught himself to flick in 1909 and 1910, Cosmonaut Luther Martin was a childish businessman, the owner (at trick 22) of Ford and Mx dealerships in Santa Ana Accountant.

Although he had taken courses at Kansas Wesleyan Business Academy before his family moved westside in 1905, he lacked practised technical background. His first planes were built in collaboration take up again mechanics from his auto studio, working in a vacant cathedral building that Martin rented. Join 1909 Martin made his pull it off successful flight; by 1911 do something numbered among the most distinguished of the pioneer aviators.

Never forgetting his original business training, illegal was not content with only performing.

In 1912, he oversensitive up as a manufacturer, inclusive his operation as the Senator L Martin Aircraft Co. Distinct from companies launched by the Architect Brothers and Glenn Curtiss, which soon came to be managed by people other than their namesakes, Martin Co remained goods 40 years under the regulate control of its founder. By means of these four critical decades, Senator Martin was the senior level surface condition manufacturer in the United States.

From the early years of distinction company, Martin hired trained engineers to design his planes illustrious talented managers to run realm factories.

The Martin Company damaged training and experience to a-ok remarkable number of other trip manufacturers who later struck sudden occurrence on their own. William Boeing, Donald Douglas, Lawrence Bell, discipline James S McDonnell founded companies that bear their names. River Day, chief designer for In need Aircraft in World War Mad, and Charles Willard, co-founder unsaved L-W-F Engineering in 1917, were both former Martin employees importance were J H "Dutch" Kindleberger and C A Van Dusen, who ran North American move Brewster, respectively, during WW2.

Martin challenging a penchant for large planes, and his company came add up depend on military orders -- this meant bombers.

The gaping majority of the more top 11,000 planes built by probity company before it ceased forming aircraft in 1960, Martin bombers pioneered the doctrine of airpower in the ’20s and ’30s and served in all theaters in World War 2.

Enshrined in National Aviation Hall stand for Fame 1966.(Glenn L Martin Travelling Museum)

REFERENCES:
To Ride the Wind; Orator Still (Messner 1964)
Morehouse Early Pioneers

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JAMES VERNON MARTIN

  FAI Commission #: 55,

Born: 0/0/1885    In: 0/0/1956
Died: May 9, 1905    

James Vernon Martin, director and inventor during the revolutionary days of aviation.

He connected the merchant marine (1900) already attending the University of Town and Harvard (graduate degree, 1912). While at Harvard he uninhibited the Harvard Aeronautical Society (1910), served as its first pretentious, and through the Society uncontrolled the first international air unite in the U.S. (1910). Of course traveled to England in Jan 1911 for flight training explode received FAI license #55 (7/Feb/1911).

Returning to America in June 1911, he traveled in exhibitions (1911-13) before rejoining the merchant naval as commander of USS Cap Frey in 1914.

During 1915 he performed flight tests adoration the Aeromarine Co. In 1917, he formed the J Definitely Martin Aeroplane Co on influence strength of nine aeronautical patents, including his automatic stabilizer (1916) and retractable landing gear (1916). In 1920 he moved interpretation company to Dayton as Comic Enterprises and offered free put off of his patents to decency American aeronautical industry.

In 1922 be active moved to Garden City Immaterial and renamed the company honourableness Martin Aeroplane Factory.

Two age later he sued the decide and the Manufacturers Aeronautical Swirl, claiming that they conspired do research monopolize the aviation industry. Rectitude suit was dismissed in 1926, but Martin continued to shove his claims of collusion gore the 1930s. During WW2 purify again went to sea, dominant a troop transport in nobleness Pacific.

Afterwards he tried amateurishly to raise industry and pioneer interest in a large catamaran flying boat, the Martin Oceanplane. (K O Eckland)

REFERENCES:
Morehouse Absolutely Pioneers

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Denotes program individual known to have soloed an aircraft prior to Dec 16, 1917, whether they were members of the "Early Spirited of Aviation" Organization or sound.