RILEY SCOTT 1891-

 

Riley Scott Photograph      You can find a beautiful photograph of Riley which resides in the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive. You can enjoy it by clicking on the title.

 

HIGHLIGHTS A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO - 1912 from the Early Birds of Aviation CHIRP June, 1937 - Number 20      This is an extract from the complete article. It is one of the few references to Riley I can find. If you want to read the whole story month by month, click on the title above. AUGUST      Observation airplanes participated in maneuvers of the National Guard and Regular Army in lower Connecticut and New York -- Milling, Arnold, Kirtland and Foulois pilots. Riley Scott won the Michelin international bomb dropping prize in France with the only sighting device worth the name, the first scientific instrument of its kind.

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Riley Scott" +aviation +1911, using the Google search engine, (2-18-11), you will find 3,690 links!! Two of the most helpful, which I found back in 2003, are seen immediately below.

COLLEGE PARK - 1911 *      This page on the USAF MUSEUMwebsite offers a very nice story of Riley Scott and the development of the bomb-dropping plane. It also shows the plane You may access the site by clicking on the title above.

 

MICHELIN BOMB DROPPING PRIZE      This page on the Airforce Historical Research Agency website offers a very nice photograph, which may be enlarged, of :      "the French Wright used by Riley Scott in winning $5,000 Michelin bomb dropping prize at Villacoublay."      You may access the site by clicking on the title above.

 

Riley probably was born in 1891. I don't know the date of his death.   Editor's Note: If you have any more information on this Early Bird, please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper   Back