John G. Montijo (1891-1929) is an American aircraft engineer and instructor.
Montijo teaches at California Polytechnic State University. Montijo teaches flight instruction to Amelia Earhart at Kinner Airster after colliding with her first instructor, Neta Snook.
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Montijo was an experienced flight instructor for the United States Air Force Corps in World War I. After being released, he moved to Lima, Peru to oversee the American airport project. Shortly after, he moved to Long Beach, California, and became one of the earliest licensed Hispanic pilots in the United States.
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Beginning Long Beach Aviation
In February 1921, Montijo competed in the Southern California Aero Club air race at Bluebird Airplanes Inc. biplane named "The Desert Rat". After that, Montijo and pilot D.D. The French fly 2200 miles across the Mojave and Imperial desert.
In 1922 Montijo worked with Bert Kinner, maker of airplanes and aircraft engines as pilots and test instructors. Three women had purchased the Kinner aircraft that year, and Montijo was recommended for instructions. One of them is Indian Osage, the other is Alosia McClintock, and Amelia Earhart who needs a new instructor after Neta Snook. As a condition, basic aerobatics were taught before Earhart was allowed to solo.
Montijo works as a flying stuntman for Goldwyn Pictures. He was the first person to perform acrobat picking a man from an airplane-moving car. During the same period, he worked briefly as a personal pilot of William Randolph Hearst.
In 1923, Montijo collaborated with Lloyd Royer on four passenger planes, the California Coupe, which will be the first cabin biplane on the West coast of the United States. The plane was built in Kinner's rented hangar. During the 1925 shoot "Partners Again" [1] one of the film series 'Potash and Perlmutter', the vehicle that performed acrobats sprinted into California Coupe tore the main gear, and one wing, sending it to a brick wall.
In 1924, Montijo became the first member of the Long Beach City flight commission. The following year, Montijo and C.B. Boone rented the first room at the new Long Beach Airport. A hangar school and a flight built on the property and sold to Earl Daugherty.
In 1928, Montijo and Cal Poly students designed and built Warren & amp; Montijo Monoplane. Montijo uses the aircraft to promote the Southwest Pacific Exhibition, to the Long Beach council, dropping leaflets in many California cities with good success. Montijo aircraft will be modified and known by many names, eventually becoming the first aircraft broadcasting, sending radio to Hollywood. Montijo then flies to Varney Air Lines flying 1929 Lockheed Vega which is modified into a 5C model. On May 1, 1935, he was on a newly modified route from Pueblo to El Paso when he died on an aircrash when a single wing hit the ground with a low pass. He dropped a letter to the schoolchildren at Rattlesnake Butte in Walsenburg, Colorado asking if the Easter egg he had dropped earlier had been damaged. His Long Beach procession included twenty planes.
Montijo's children remain active in flight after his death, his son continued to become a P-51 pilot in the Combat Squadron 353 in World War II, and was hired to manage La Cresta Airfield in Bakersfield, California at his opening. The airfield was known as Monty La Cresta Airfield in honor of his father.
References
External links
- Montijo Picture [2]
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