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CAPT Adolphus W. Gorton, USN (Ret.)

Captain Adolphus W. Gorton, US Navy (Ret), (1897-1989), was born January 29, 1897 in Pawtuxet, a direct descendant of the Gortons who founded the City of Warwick. He graduated from Moses Brown and entered Dartmouth in 1916, but left to join the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps in France. He sailed abroad on May 5, […]

November 18, 20172017, Aviation Pioneers (pre-1930), RIAHOF Inductee, US Navy, WWI, WWIITest Pilot, USN Air Race Team

Edward Albert Johnson

Edward Albert Johnson (1885-1949) was born in Newport, RI in January of 1885. He developed an interest in aeronautics and spent May-October, 1915, at the Curtiss school in Buffalo. He first soloed in 1915 and received Pilot License No. 32. He joined the Curtiss Aeroplane Company and became its representative in England. After the US […]

November 18, 20172017, Administrators & Educators, Airport, Facilities & Support, Aviation Pioneers (pre-1930), General Aviation / Private Pilots, Inventors & Innovators, WWITest Pilot

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