MARK M. CAMPBELL 1897-1963 AKA Mark Mitchell Campbell

MARK M. CAMPBELL & FRIENDS Collection of John S. Schmidt, 2-16-04

IDENTIFICATIONS BY MARK M. CAMPBELL, JR.      The picture is familiar to me, but I don't know who all the people are. The one in the middle behind the girl is my Dad, Mark M. Campbell. I am very sure the one on the right is Frank Clarke, a friend, and the pilot who did the flying during most of his stunts. There was a girl who worked with them named Gladys Roy but I am sure that she is not in the picture.

 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES via email from Mark M. Campbell, Jr., 5-16-04      I see in this info that He was a pilot in WW1, that is incorrect. He worked for the Curtiss Co. in Buffalo and was also at the Great Lakes Training center but as a civilian. Some time during the war he was at Monterey Ca. for training with the !st aero sqd. But turned down the commission as he was making a lot more money in what he was doing. It was probably after WW1 but I'm not certain. There was a long photo of this. There were four or five airplanes in a row with the flight crews lined up in front of the planes. I think that the others included Ira Acker .Arnold and possibly Spatz. I think this was before Doolittles' time but am not sure. Any other info I can locate I'll pass on.      I worked at Lockheed from June 1949 until Dec 1987 , then spent the next six years at Northrop. While at Lockheed I worked on all the planes from the T-33 thru the 117. During that time I also was involved in the structures testing of the Space Shuttle and the B1 both A & B models. I went to Edwards with the Ist B-2 and later went back with the bombing test aircraft. Mark M. Campbell Jr.

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Mark M. Campbell +aviation", using the Google search engine, (5-16-04), you will find about 14 links. Perhaps the most helpful is the following.

 

Campbell, Mark M., 1897-1963. MS84- 1104. Papers, photographs; 1910-1961; 141 items. World War I pilot, 1920s barnstormer, movie stunt man, Lockheed executive, 1934-1960, and cofounder of Silver Wings Fraternity in California. Consists of personal papers, handwritten transcripts of Campbell's life in aviation from oral history tapes, letters, certificates, clippings, photographs and album on the Golden Eagle monoplane which Campbell designed. This note is from the site of University of Texas at Dallas History of Aviation Collection McDermott Library Box 830643 Richardson, Texas 75083- 0643 (214) 690-2996

 

Photo from THE PORTAL OF THE FOLDED WINGS SHRINE TO AVIATION AND MUSEUM Pierce Brothers Valhalla Cemetery 10621 Victory Boulevard North Hollywood, California 91606 (818) 763-9121 (located at Cahuenga and Victory)

 

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