Doug Davis (aviator)

Douglas Henry Davis[1][2] (November 12, 1898[1][3] – September 3, 1934[4]) was an early American aviator, barnstormer, air racer, flight instructor and commercial pilot.

To his disappointment, Davis was made an instructor, flying a Curtiss JN-4D "Jenny" trainer rather than fighting the enemy in the skies over France.

[6] After his discharge in 1919, Davis purchased a surplus government Jenny, which he named "Glenna Mae" after his future wife, and turned to barnstorming in the southeastern United States.

[5] Davis had previously worked for Schnering, promoting his product by dropping the candy bars, attached to paper parachutes, from his airplane.

[2] In 1923, he created a national uproar by flying low between buildings in the business district of Pittsburgh distributing candy.

"[9] Tibbets would go on to pilot the Boeing B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II.

[2] Movie star Mary Pickford presented him with the trophy, while Vincent Bendix gave him his $5400 prize check.

He banked to turn around and try to pass the pylon properly, only to stall and crash into the ground, dying instantly out of sight of the 60,000 spectators.

He would become a successful painter before dying in an Air France Boeing 707 crash on takeoff from Orly Field, Paris, on June 3, 1962, at about the same age as his father.