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H. J. Webster, the former Duluth automobile man who is studying aviation
at the Curtiss school in San Diego. Mr. Webster is pictured in his first machine, a 30-horsepower affair which
can only rise to a height of 50 feet. He is now driving a 90-horsepower "bird" and has made several good
flights. He recently made a flight as passanger with the famous Francis Wildman.
H. J. Webster began flying around Duluth in 1912, soloed a Curtiss pusher in 1913
at North Island and holds Aero CLub certificate No. 290 dated 1914. His aviation career includes exhibition work
in 1914, instructing for Curtiss 1915-1916, for the Army in Mineola and Houston in 1917; superintendent of
Springfield Aircraft Co., 1918, manager of an air transport company at Toronto, 1920-1922. He sold real estate
in Los Angeles until 1930, when he went into the movies with M.G.M. He died in 1963. |
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