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  Bert Hinkler's Aircraft
uring Bert Hinkler's eventful life, he became associated with many aircraft, especially during his time as Chief Test Pilot for A.V.Roe and Co. His test flights of experimental aircraft, many of which were designed for military service are well documented.
is role as reserve pilot in the 1925 British Schneider Trophy team bears witness to the esteem in which he was held as a test pilot.
Regretfully in the same aircraft, the boy born at Woodbine Villa, Gavin Street, Bundaberg, Australia, met an untimely end on Mt.Pratomagno, Italy on the January 7, 1933 whilst attempting another solo record to Australia.
www.bundabergonthe.net /hinkler/aircraft.htm   (570 words)

  
  Bert Acosta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bert was born in San Diego, California to Alphonse Ferdinand Acosta and Martha Blanche Snook.
The perhaps apocrophyl story was that Byrd had to hit Acosta over the head with a fire extinguisher or a flashlight when he got out of control from drinking during their flight.
Bert was living at 46 West 17th Street in New York City when he left for Spain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bert_Acosta   (949 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Bert Schneider : Biography
Producer Bert Schneider was behind a number of important and topical films of the late '60s and early '70s.
It was Schneider and Rafelson who brought the Monkees, a television rock group devised to present an American version of the Beatles, to network television.
Schneider and Rafelson broke into feature films with the pseudo-counterculture film Head, starring the Monkees and featuring a screenplay penned by Jack Nicholson.
www.vh1.com /movies/person/97671/bio.jhtml   (232 words)

  
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The gold medal match (wherein Schneider faced Alexander Ireland of Great Britain) ended in a draw after the required three rounds, so the referee ordered a fourth round to be fought to determine the winner.
Schneider was born in Cleveland, but moved to Montreal with his family when he was nine years old.
Schneider won the Dominion championship and became the Canadian welterweight champion while an American citizen.
www.jewsinsports.org /olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=333   (277 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Black Murder Inc. by David Horowitz
One of our marks was Bert Schneider, the producer of Easy Rider, the breakthrough film of the Sixties which had brought the counter-cultural rebellion into the American mainstream.
Although I sensed that Bert was aware of the Party's criminal activities, including Betty's murder, I was not as afraid of him as I was of Huey, and I decided to go and see him.
I was already focussing, however, on something else Bert had said that had far greater significance for me. In defending his reaction to the article he had admitted "Huey isn't as angry as I am." It was the opening I was looking for.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3477   (8596 words)

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