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FINAL CHECKS 1 GIVEN PLANES‘Miss Aviation’ Will BeEntertained in Cityt;11, Final plans were being made Saturday and planes were reeei/-'ing final check-ups in preparation ■ for the city’s first Annual National Air show which will begin Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the municipal airport below Dunbar under _ sponslrship of the Capital City lods’e. Fraternal Order of Police.Miss Katherine Wilson* hostess on one of the giant TWA airliners and who has been voted Miss American Aviation of 1939” wasjs scheduled to arrive In the city by [piano Saturday afternoon to rule , las queen of the air show. She wut , he entertained Saturday afternoon! mid evening by aviation officials, | A last minute change has been;, i marie in the personnel of the air, shew, according to Hugh C. Thom-’ i ason, manager, Lieutenant ! Michael Murphy, test pilot and na-Itionat acrobatic champion of 1937, [has been signed to perform. He will replace Captain R. C, Granere. Canadian flying ace, .who underwent an emergency operation *last Monday.Lieut. Murphy will be flying a 300 horsepower special Waco tapenvlng stunt plane equiwflj Hvilh smoke screen attachments« He will perform the most difficult ; maneuvers with trails of smoke. i marking his path through the air.; i Plans have been made by airport j ? officials to handle huge crowds.
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Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sat, Sep 09, 1939
Page 10
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