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THE IMPOSING DOMED STRUCTURE seen at the beginning of this episode is called the "Portal of the Folded Wings", a shrine to aviation. The small scale Space Shuttle is a memorial for those that died both on the Challenger and the Columbia.
The shrine is a 75-foot-tall structure of marble, mosaic, and sculpted figures and is the burial site for fifteen pioneers of aviation. It was dedicated in 1953 by aviation enthusiasts who wanted a final resting place for pilots, mechanics, and other pioneers of flight.
Dedicated to the honored dead of American aviation on the 50th anniversary of powered flight, December 17, 1953, by Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker USAF (retired). Beneath the memorial tablets in this sacred portal rest the cremated remains of famous flyers who contributed so much to the history and development of aviation.
THOSE BURIED THERE:
Bertrand Blanchard Acosta (1895-1954), co-pilot with Admiral Richard Byrd in 1927
Jimmie Angel (1899-1956), discoverer of Angel Falls - his ashes were later removed and scattered over the falls.
Walter Richard Brookins (1889-1953), flew for the Wright brothers
Mark Mitchell Campbell (1897-1963), stunt pilot and aircraft designer
John Franklin Bruce Carruthers (1889-1960), Chaplain of the Portal of the Folded Wings and air historian. His epitaph reads: "At the grave, when my warfare is ended. Though no flowers emblazon the sod. May a prayer mark the good I intended. Leaving all decoration to God."
Warren Samuel Eaton (1891-1966), Colonel and early pilot who built airplanes for Lincoln Beachy
Winfield Bertrum Kinner (1882-1957), a.k.a. Bert Kinner, built "Kinner" airplanes. Amelia Earhart flew a Kinner.
Augustus Roy Knabenshue (1876-1960), balloon and dirigible pilot who flew in the Dominguez Air Meet in 1910 and manager of the Wright brothers exhibition team, the "Wright Fliers."
John Bevins Moisant (1868-1910), won the Statue of Liberty Race in 1910; first to carry a passenger across the English Channel.
Matilde Moisant (1878-1964), the second licensed female pilot in the United States in 1911
Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen (1878-1958), one of Los Angeles's first female pilots
James Floyd Smith (1884-1956), test pilot and instructor for Glenn Martin and manufacturer of parachutes. He built and flew his own plane in 1912 and invented the free-type manually operated parachute for the Army in 1918.
Hilder Florentina Smith (1890-1977), aerial acrobat and parachute jumper. She was married to James Floyd Smith.
Carl Browne Squier (1893-1967), World War I aviator, barnstormer, test pilot, and salesman. As Vice President of Lockheed Aircraft he sold Charles and Anne Lindbergh their Sirius airplane in 1931.
Charles Edward Taylor (1868-1956), machinist for the Wright brothers who helped design and build the first engine for the Wright Flyer flown at Kitty Hawk.
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The Blackburn Cult, officially the Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven, or the Great Eleven Club, was a new religious movement started in 1922 by American woman May Otis Blackburn. She started the group on Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles, California, and later formed a retreat in the Southern California Simi Valley.
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Негізгі бет HIDDEN & MUMMIFIED UNDER HER PARENTS' BEDROOM FLOOR. A Victim of The Reverend May Blackburn, in LA.
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