President Coolidge signed the Air Commerce Act providing for the licensing of pilots and commercial aircraft. He also signed the Railway Labor act abolishing the Railroad Labor Board.
The Air Commerce Act provided for an Aeronautics Branch within the U.S. Department of Commerce to implement and enforce regulations and is depicted as a story element in the film The Great Waldo Pepper. The film accurately portrays the role of the Aeronautics Branch in brining barnstorming to an end.
1930 photograph by Ernst Udet, German fighter pilot in World War One and Luftwaffe officer during World War Two, upon whom the movie character Ernst Kessler is based in the movie The Great Waldo Pepper. Udet was a barnstormer in the 1920s.
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Wednesday, May 19, 1926. Bad coinage idea.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, Calvin Coolidge, China, Currency, French Air Force, George Washington, Great Syrian Revolt, Kuomintang, Syria, Syria (Damascus)
