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from a photo showing Group of Early Bird flyers n front of Wright Memorial August, 1940 Collection of Wright State University |
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in front of Wright Memorial August, 1940 From left to right, 1st row: J. William Kabitzke, Orville Wright, Charles Wald, 2nd row: Walter Brookins (partially seen:, Roderick M. Wright, John C. Henning, Captain Kenneth Whiting, Bernard L. Whelan, C. Albert Elton, Robert G. Fowler. In the center at rear, George A. Gray. Collection of Wright State University |
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Photo from NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER A Few Pioneers 1898-1916 |
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Ens. Whiting took command of the submarine Porpoise For the whole story, you may click on: Kenneth Whiting You may want to use the "Find" function on "Whiting" |
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There are four references to Whiting on the Naval Aviation Chronology website. To access the site, you just click on: Kenneth Whiting You may want to use the "Find" function on "Whiting" To find each one, you may have to click five times. |
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There are two references to Cmdr. Whiting on the USS Langley website. To access the site, you just click on: Kenneth Whiting You may want to use the "Find" function on "Whiting" To find each one, you may want to click twice. |
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Sprague Library Harvey Mudd College. "This web site is designed to show what the contents of Sprague Library has to offer in Carruthers Special Collection on aviation history. Specifically, this site deals with the portion of the collection devoted to photographs, posters, artists drawings and media publications. The approximately 4800 books in the Carruthers aviation collection are already in the on-line library catalog. The topics mentioned in this site are limited to the subjects available in this particular collection of approximately 445 Photos; 400 documents, 115 posters, lithographs/engravings; . They represent several periods of aviation history of ballooning since 1783, and heavier-than-air vehicles since 1900 and the people and events which made that history." along with a number of other pioneers, Just click on: Kenneth Whiting You will find him pictured in the fourth picture down the page. I heartily recommend that you plan some time to enjoy the whole site. Just click on; Aviation Special Collections You will find a wealth of fascinating materials available online. |
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You will find a nice little biography of him on this site. Included is a photograph of him along with four other of the Navy early aviators at Pensacola, Florida, circa 1915-1916. To access the site, you just click on: Kenneth Whiting Contributed by Pete Jones, 7-16-10 |
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