As a toddler, Forsythe moved with his family to Port Antonio, Jamaica, where his father became a prominent civil engineer.
In 1933, Forsythe and C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson were the first black pilots to make a round-trip cross-country flight from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Los Angeles, California.
[3] They made the cross country journey in a Fairchild 24 purchased by Forsythe, which they named "The Pride of Atlantic City."
[4] In 1934, Forsythe and Anderson bought a Lambert Monocoupe and christened it the "Booker T. Washington," in which they flew their South American Good Will Flight.
[4] Letters said to have been written by Forsythe during his historic flights were found by a woman under the porch of an Atlantic City home in 2011.