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Interwar Air Service Pioneers

Top to bottom: Suited for extreme cold, Lieutenant John Macready with the Packard LePere aircraft in which he set the American altitude record of 34,508 feet in 1921; Sergeant Roy Hooe, Lieutenant Harry Halverson, Captain Ira Eaker, Major Carl Spatz (later spelled Spaatz), and Lieutenant Elwood Quesada after their record-setting endurance flight in the Fokker Trimotor Question Mark in 1929; the Question Mark being refueled on its famous flight; Lieutenant Jimmy Doolittle in the Consolidated NY-2 he piloted during blind flying tests in 1929. The enclosing hood is folded around the cockpit.