Lewis C. Rockwell

Lewis Cassidy Rockwell (23 November 1884 – 28 September 1912) was a United States Army Second Lieutenant who died in an aircraft crash.

Rockwell was the fourth commissioned officer of the United States Army to meet death in an aviation accident.

[8] The plane in question had been rebuilt thrice and logged over one thousand flights; it was made of wood, wire, cloth, and glue.

Coupled with eyewitness accounts, the investigatory board determined that pilot error was the cause: Rockwell misjudged the plane's altitude upon descent and could not recover from the dive.

[1][10] Rockwell Field, located on North Island in San Diego, California, originally called the Signal Corps Aviation School, was renamed in his honor on 20 July 1917.

Lt L. C. Rockwell of the 10th United States Infantry Regiment at the controls of a Curtiss Model E - College Park, Maryland (1912)
Lewis Cassidy Rockwell at the United States Military Academy , c. 1907
Lt Lewis Cassidy Rockwell at the controls of an aircraft
The crashed aircraft S.C.4