About the Author:
Arthur La Vove was a writer, artist, journalist and pilot who lived and workedduring a pivotal time in American aviation and military history. He was bornon Manhattan Island in New York City, USA, on December 6, 1909.He flew his first airplane from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New Yorkin 1929. He then went on to fly as a pilot for the first trans-continental airlinein American history-Century Airways-and, subsequently, for United Airlinesin the late 1930s, while enlisting in the Air National Guard prior to the attackby Imperial Japan on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into World War II inDecember 1941.He attended Columbia University's School of Journalism in New York, andhe was a working police and aviation reporter for both the Herald Examinerand the L.A. Times in Southern California through the 1930s and 40s and upuntil the mid-1970s. He was an active commercial pilot during the 1930s and40s, and he witnessed and experienced the beginnings of modern commercialairlines and commercial aircraft manufacturing, particularly on the West Coastin Southern California.He knew the founders of Pan American Airways, and of MexicanaAirlines-a subsidiary of Pan American. He flew airplanes for William RandolphHearst and his family to and from San Simeon, and he knew Howard Hughes.Finally, and no less interestingly, Art La Vove drove in the last MexicanRoad Race in 1953 through Baja, California, and he was involved with the expeditionto excavate Pre-Columbian artefacts in and around Mexico City, Mexicoduring the 1930s; most likely piloting an airplane which transported artefactsand personnel.He died in May of 1994 in Santa Monica, California. He lived an active andfull life.
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