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  Station Information - Ormer Locklear
Ormer 'Lock' Locklear (October 28, 1891 - August 2, 1920) was a daredevil stunt flyer during and immediately after World War I.
Locklear became fascinated by flying, trying to build his own glider, so when World War I involved the US in 1917, he joined the U.S. Army Air Service.
Locklear and Elliott were buried in Fort Worth after huge funeral ceremonies, both there and in Los Angeles.
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 Ormer Locklear -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Ormer 'Lock' Locklear (October 28, 1891 – August 2, 1920) was a daredevil stunt flyer during and immediately after (A war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918) World War I.
Born in Greenville, Texas, Locklear was brought up in (A city in northeastern Texas (just west of Dallas); a major industrial center) Fort Worth, and trained as a carpenter.
A 2nd Lieutenant at the end of the war, he had been assigned to military recruitment when he saw a (additional info and facts about barnstorming) barnstorming show, and realised his own usual flying exploits were far more impressive.
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 Ormer Locklear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Ormer 'Lock' Locklear (October 28, 1891 - August 2, 1920) was adaredevil stunt flyer during and immediately after World War I.
Born in Greenville, Texas, Locklear was brought up in Fort Worth, andtrained as a carpenter.
A 2nd Lieutenant at the end of the war, he had been assigned to military recruitment when he saw a barnstorming show, and realised his own usual flying exploits were far moreimpressive.
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 Ormer Locklear and the “Lunatics"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Locklear had been trained at the Army Air Service flight school at Barron Field, near Fort Worth, Texas, and was performing stunts on the wings of his Jenny even while in the service.
Jumping from one plane to another was Locklear’s trademark stunt, and then, when the public tired of that, he worked on jumping from a car to a plane and from a plane to car.
Locklear was severely injured in some of the earlier attempts of this stunt, but Pickens used that (and exaggerated bandages) to heighten the drama and stir public interest.
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 Squadron of Death: Flying and Dying for Hollywood
Ormer Locklear had built a reputation as a fearless flier long before he started stunt-flying, while he was serving as an instructor for the U.S. Army Air Service.
Locklear performed a variety of hair-raising stunts for that movie, including a train-to-plane transfer and wing-walking.
Locklear had told the director to kill the searchlights illuminating the dive to signal when it was time for the pilot to pull out.
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 Flying Circus Jenny, Medium
Ormer Locklear is generally credited as the first man to wing walk, or at the very least, the person most responsible for the growth of the phenomenon.
Locklear could have been court-martialed for such antics but Jenny biplanes were suffering a rash of accidents at the time and he was encouraged to keep doing these hair-raising stunts as it was a great boost to the morale of his colleagues.
Ormer Locklear, the "King of the Wing Walkers," died while performing a stunt for a Hollywood film in August 1920, only a year-and-a-half after turning professional.
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 CrossRoads Access, Inc. Corinth History
Ormer Leslie Locklear was a Texas farm boy who suddenly found himself part of the dazzle and glamour of Hollywood in 1919 because of a desire for daring and a rollicking Douglas Fairbanks attitude toward life.
Locklear was known as the "man who walked on wings." He had become internationally famous because of his unusual ability to walk the wings of planes in flight.
Barnes $12.00 Obviously a labor of love, Art Ronnie's hardcover volume on Ormer Locklear stunt flyer, aviation pioneer, air force officer, bon vivant, and a sort of flying Evel Knevel of his day, is more than just the biography of a Hollywood stuntman.
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 "Barnstorming Showmen"
Locklear was working as a carpenter and mechanic in Fort Worth, Texas, when he joined the U.S. Army Air Service in October 1917, just a few days short of his 26th birthday.
Although Locklear could have been court-martialed for such antics, his commanding officer encouraged him, instead, to perform more "stunts" because they boosted his colleagues' moral, and their confidence in the soundness of their Jenny biplanes, which were suffering a rash of accidents at the time.
By the fall of 1919--only a few months after Ormer Locklear had received his military discharge and become a professional barnstormer--eight wing walkers, who had been trying to copy some of Locklear's stunts, died in the process.
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 Ormer Locklear: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Ormer Locklear
Ormer Locklear: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Ormer Locklear
Ormer 'Lock' Locklear (28 October 1891 - 2 August 1920) was a daredevil stunt flyer during and immediately after World War I.
He forewarned the crew lighting crew to douse their lights when he got near the derricks, so that he could see to pull out of the dive; the lights remained full on, blinding him, and he crashed.
www.encyclopedian.com /or/Ormer-Locklear.html   (358 words)

  
 WALKING ON WINGS: CAUTION AND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Locklear ignited a barnstorming fever that would electrify a tight fraternity of flyers for a decade.
Locklear's demonstrations both thrilled movie buffs and encouraged professionals who were then putting future airliners on the drawing board.
Locklears and Lindberghs are the lineal antecedents of astronauts who launched our space age.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1986/may-jun/kline.html   (2248 words)

  
 Ormer Locklear
Ormer 'Lock' Locklear (28 October 1891 - 2 August 1920) was a daredevil stunt flyer during and immediately after World War I. Ormer 'Lock' Locklear (28 October 1891 - 2 August 1920) was a daredevil stunt flyer during and immediately after World War I.
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 The Air Circus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Ormer Locklear poses atop his Curtiss Jenny in flight, around 1919-1920.
Even Ormer Locklear, the "King of the Wing Walkers," died while performing a stunt for a Hollywood film in August 1920, only a year-and-a-half after turning professional.
Although Locklear was supposedly the greatest stunt person of the day, even his skills were not enough to overcome the uncertainties that sometimes accompanied such seemingly death-defying feats.
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 WayBack . Flight . Barnstormers | PBS KIDS GO!
Ormer Locklear died in a crash while doing a stunt for a Hollywood movie.
Ormer Locklear had a huge following--he posed for photographs and signed autographs for throngs of adoring fans.
Before her death, Bessie Coleman spoke at rallies, schools, and churches to encourage young African Americans to fight racism, to reach for personal goals, and especially, to learn to fly.
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 LOCKLEAR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Search the LOCKLEAR Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
Search the LOCKLEAR Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
Find graves of people named LOCKLEAR at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/L/LOCKLEAR.htm   (73 words)

  
 Ormer Locklear, aerobatics and barnstorming
A newspaper advertisement for Ormer Locklearïs Flying Circus, 1919.
Roscoe Turner was one of the daredevil pilots on the barnstorming circuit.
Buzzing the lot, he perfected a manoeuvre in which he ricocheted off the roof of the sound stages, calling it the “Locklear Bounce,” and he romanced a rising young actress at Metro, Viola Dana (though he had a wife back in Texas).
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 Ormer Locklear - TheBestLinks.com - August 2, Austin, Texas, California, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
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 Abebooks Search Results - ISBN 0498010732   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The author has done a thorough job of detective work to tell the story of a forgotten aviation pioneer who was the most famous of his time.
Ormer Leslie Locklear was the indisputed King of daredevils and the darling of Hollywood.
Story of Ormer Locklear, who became internationally famous because of his unusal abilitly to walk on the wings of planes.
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 Barron Field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barron Field in Everman, Texas, was one of three airfields used during World War I by the U.S. Army Signal Corps (later U.S. Army Air Service) flight training center at Camp Taliaferro near Fort Worth.
Barron Field saw flight training and daredevil stunting by the likes of Ormer Locklear, and other pioneer barnstorming pilots.
This World War I article is a stub.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barron_Field   (100 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Ormer Locklear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Ormer Locklear; all previous versions may be viewed here.
They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
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 Bill talks wristwrestling with President Ford
Ten percent of all the profits from the exhibition of "The Skywayman," Lt. Ormer Locklear's last picture, to be shown at the Hill tonight and Wednesday, is to be given to the families of Locklear and his pilot, Lt. Milton Elliott.
A crusader for science, Lt. Locklear has appealed to the imagination as no other airman has done.
He will live in history as the first flyer to go from one airplane to another in mid-air -- a feat which first thrilled the world and then opened the eyes of scientists and experts to the new possibilities of aircraft.
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 Adney J. Lirette
In recent years Lirette has been gradually building up his reputation as one of the best aviators in the country.
"Fox News," moving picture magazine, a short while ago, gave him an international reputation by comparing him to the famous Locklear, (Ormer Locklear), who also lost his life in stunt flying.
It ws even said that in a very short time he would have superseded Locklear as the greatest stunt flyer the world has yet seen.
www.earlyaviators.com /elirett2.htm   (1083 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Skywayman : Main
"Safety second is my motto" -- so said daredevil pilot Ormer Locklear.
After doing his duty as an aviator in World War I and performing an array of frightening flying stu...
After doing his duty as an aviator in World War I and performing an array of frightening flying stunts in Hollywood for nearly a year and a half, Locklear's motto came back to haunt him when, on August 2, 1920, he was killed during the filming of this picture...
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I have been dealing in magazine advertising for well over 30 years and sometimes, after the ads were removed, I would go back and remove any articles that I found interesting.
Look close at the design of the aircraft, I don't know if I would like to be the one flying them.
This is a 1935 Article about Shirley Short and Ormer Locklear, two barnstormers after WWI.
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 Detail view of Movies Page
Famed aviator Lt. Ormer Locklear and his pilot Lt. Milton Elliott were killed in a plane accident during a landing while filming this picture.
According to reviews and news items, the film included scenes of Locklear's plane in flames.
The board of directors of Fox decided to give ten percent of the film's profits to the families of the aviators; the film was released earlier than planned because of this.
www.afi.com /members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=1&Movie=16128   (186 words)

  
 TheLandOnline.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
The photo may draw an "Oh My Gosh" from you but the text will tell you Boyer's trick bordered on the mundane as far as fair-goers in the first quarter of the last century were concerned.
"Ormer Locklear earned notoriety by jumping or climbing from the wing of one aircraft to another, and once dropped from a plane into a train," Nelson writes.
As jaded fair-goers tired of wing walkers, another barnstorming pilot, Captain F.F. "Bowser" Frakes, turned to crashing airplanes into houses, trees, automobiles and burning buildings.
www.the-land.com /story.php?storyid=1454   (873 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Air Mail Pilot : Main
If stunt pilots Ormer Locklear and Al Wilson could star in their own films, then by golly...
If stunt pilots Ormer Locklear and Al Wilson could star in their own films, then by golly James F. Fulton could too.
Only one problem: Fulton may have been a star in the clouds, but on land he was just one step above inept.
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 Adney J. Lirette
The people in Vernon, Texas are looking for articles on his death as we speak.
The New York Public \ Library has some Fox News Moving Picture Magazines, but they don't know yet if they have the article comparing Adney to Ormer Locklear (which is quoted in one of the unidentified obits).
I have my grandfather, and a great aunt and uncle who still remember watching Adney wing walk and hang from the planes by his teeth.
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 The Guardian
Stunt men did everything — high dives, car wrecks, upsetting wagons, swapping from motor cycles to planes.
The most famous stunt flyer, Ormer Locklear, was killed in the middle of a film.
US cable outfit The Discovery Channel has a lot of airtime to fill, so it makes a lot of use of padding and speculation ("Some think this may have been") when short of real facts.
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 The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Squadron of Death 1920 - 1930) - Apr. 11th, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
But the stunt flier would have to hit his mark traveling at almost 100 miles per hour -- and also avoid hitting several cameramen on the field.
Wingwalker Ormer Locklear poses atop his Curtiss Jenny in flight, around 1919-1920
Grace had an entire emergency crew ready with an ambulance, tools to extricate him from the wreck and another plane ready to rush him to a hospital if he was injured.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1381222/posts   (7800 words)

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