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Brown Condor: Gulfport Pilot’s Daring Ethiopian Legacy
AP Special Correspondent Jules Loh recounts Tom Simmons who learned to fly at 16 and, over a decade, uncovered the life of John C. Robinson the Brown Condor. Robinson trained Ethiopian pilots in the 1920s and became Haile Selassie’s personal pilot and adviser helping establish an Ethiopian airline.
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