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Richard C. du Pont, special assistant to Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the United States Air Forces, and one of the country's glider experts, was one of the four men killed in a glider crash at March Field yesterday, Army officials said today.
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contains documentation on the work of airline promoter Henry Belin du Pont and pilot
Richard Chichester du Pont, including the latter's innovative but short-lived air-mail pick-up system for snagging mail sacks mounted on the
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was at first an airmail service that eventually serviced parts of
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. In 1949, the company began passenger service and changed its name to All American Airways and then to
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As a young boy he developed an enthusiasm for aviation and took flying lessons. His interest in flight expanded to include gliders and he was flying them while still a teenager. At the
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containing materials related to
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glider in which he was a passenger crashed during a demonstration flight. After bailing out of the aircraft his parachute failed. His brother, Major
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American Glider Program. After the death of the program's director, Lewin B. Barringer, Richard du Pont was made a Special Assistant to
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Alliance) has been awarded for studies in
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Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States
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In 1933, Richard du Pont partnered with Hawley Bowlus to set up the
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Richard C. du Pont and Summit
Aviation scrapbooks and photographs
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Richard Dupont Fellowship (DuPont Fellows program under the
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United States Army Air Forces personnel killed in World War II
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