Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation

Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation is a memorial monument and burial site for fifteen pioneers of aviation in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

The portal of the folded wings was built in 1924 as the main entrance of the cemetery, Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. The portal with a structure made ​​of marble, mosaics and sculptures and a height of around 23 meters in 1953 to the last resting place for pilots and aviation pioneers and 1998 registered in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, NRHP Reference: 98,000,246th

Burials

  • Bertrand Blanchard Acosta (1895-1954) pilot and co- pilot of Admiral Richard Byrd in 1927 they crossed the Atlantic non-stop flights from Europe to America in 48 Hours
  • Jimmie Angel (1899-1956), bush pilot and explorer of Angel Falls - his ashes were later removed and scattered over the Falls
  • Walter Richard Brookins (1889-1953), flew for the Wright brothers
  • Mark Mitchell Campbell (1897-1963), stunt pilot and aircraft designer
  • Richard Peter Della- Vedowa (1917-1994), pilot and developers jet -powered fighter aircraft at Lockheed
  • Samuel Warren Eaton (1891-1966), colonel and pilot, who also built for Lincoln Beachy aircraft
  • Winfield Bertrum Kinner (1882-1957), also known as Bert Kinner an aircraft designer. Amelia Earhart flew a Kinner.
  • Roy Augustus Knabenshue (1876-1960), balloon and airship driver
  • John Bevins Moisant (1868-1910), won the Statue of Liberty Race in 1910 and the first pilot to fly a passenger over the English Channel.
  • Matilde Moisant (1878-1964), the second licensed female pilot in the United States in 1911
  • Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen (1878-1958), the first female pilot in Los Angeles
  • James Floyd Smith (1884-1956), a test pilot, instructor, manufacturer of parachutes. He built and flew his own plane in 1912 and invented the parachute for the Army in 1918.
  • Hilder Florentina Smith (1890-1977), aerialist and parachutist.
  • Carl Browne Squier (1893-1967), World War I aviator, barnstormer, test pilot and aircraft dealers. As vice president of Lockheed Aircraft, he sold Charles and Anne Lindbergh her ​​Sirius aircraft in 1931.
  • Charles Edward Taylor (1868-1956), engineer of the Wright brothers, he built the engine for the first flight.
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