Timothy M. Cunningham was born on May 4, 1921. He attended Catholic grade and high schools in St. Paul, Minnesota. When World War II started, he entered the Army Air Corps as a flying cadet. After graduating, he was assigned as a flight instructor, and later became a B-24 Airplane Commander.
Curtis Peebles was an aerospace historian for the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. and joined the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center history office in 2000. Peebles is known as the nation’s leading researcher and skeptic on UFO sightings.
Dalton B. Suggs had an extensive career designing and testing aircraft power plants and engines. He began as an aircraft mechanic and barnstormer in Ft. Worth Texas, and most of his career was spent with General Dynamics, under the Convair Division in both Ft. Worth, and San Diego, California.
The collection contains articles, newspaper clippings, research notes, drawings, and photographs relating to lighter-than-air airships of all types. This is primarily a subject collection but has been cataloged as a collection of personal papers because it contains some personal effects (membership cards, correspondence, photographs) created and maintained by Daniel M. Burns. This collection includes photos. The photographs are not separated and are left in situ to preserve the original arrangement.
Darline "Dottie" Sanders was born in 1918 in Buffalo, NY, and lived Lemon Grove, CA. She earned her private pilot license on May 1, 1949. She and her husband owned a two-place Cessna, Model 140A, 1950 model. She became a member of the San Diego chapter of "The Ninety-Nines" in 1949 and served as secretary, vice-chairman, and chairman of that chapter.
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