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Items from Box 27, Folder 7 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, December 1940. Contains two clippings and a press release related to William P. Lear's receipt of the Frank Hawks Memorial Trophy for developing the Learmatic gyromatic navigator. Three total documents and original folder labeled "Publicity re 'Learmatic' / L-p-5."
Items from Box 27, Folder 16 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, February 24, 1941. Contains a Lear Avia Corporation press release and photograph related to a British American Ambulance Corps (BAAC) flying tour, carried out by pilot Miriam Johnson, BAAC Vice President H. Terrell Van Ingen, and radio operator Earl Evans in a Lear-equipped Waco aircraft. The photograph depicts Johnson, Van…
Items from Box 27, Folder 23 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, July 24, 1941. Contains a press release and eight captioned photographs related to William P. Lear's evaluation of German radio equipment taken from a captured Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft. The photographs depict Lear and Lear Avia engineers carrying out tests on the radio equipment, as well as close-up shots of the…