Do you know your history? (part XVIII)

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Another "person" question before we dive back into the mechanical:

This picture contains two pilots - the men on the far left and far right. Who are they? Additionally, of the two, who was at my Grandfather's retirement party in 1984 and said to me the immortal words "Hey Jimmy, why don't you refill my scotch"?

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WacoFan said:
Another "person" question before we dive back into the mechanical:

This picture contains two pilots - the men on the far left and far right. Who are they? Additionally, of the two, who was at my Grandfather's retirement party in 1984 and said to me the immortal words "Hey Jimmy, why don't you refill my scotch"?

RTHN.jpg
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On the right is Roscoe Turner... the left looks like Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan perhaps?
 
To give some hints...

Roscoe Turner did not win...

I'll give you a second chance, let you try to get it right. ;)






edit: While y'all are researching this, I will be inspecting the back of my eyelids for cracks.
 
Okay I got it. Leftie is Harold Neumann, My guess is that Roscoe is there because he was the previous year's winner.

Mr. Neumann flew for TWA, retiring as a Captain in 1966 and, coincidentally, died in San Jose California in 1995 at the age of 89.
 
1935 was the Year of Benny Howard at the National Air Races.

Benny and Gordon Israel won the Bendix trophy in the Howard DGA-6, Mr. Mulligan:

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Then, Harold Neumann won the Grieve Trophy, for airplanes under 550 cubic inches, in the Howard "Mike":

HowardMike.jpg


Then, Harold Neumann won the Thompson Trophy in Mr. Mulligan.

Benny Howard then used Mr. Mulligan as a basis for his fine line of commercial aircraft.

Harold Neumann went on to TWA, retiring in 1966 as a 707 Captain. He continued to fly aerobatics well into his 80's, using his Monocoupe which he named "Little Mulligan":

littleMulligan.jpg


In 1982, Jim Younkin built an exact replica of Mr. Mulligan. He saw Harold Neumann and they went to fly the beast...and on his first flight in Mr. Mulligan since 1935 Harold performed a perfect aileron roll.

mulligan1.jpg


That year at Blakesburg, Jim Younkin and another friend of the family, Bud Dake, were sitting around looking at Mulligan and hatched the idea of the Mullicoupe:

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And you can read about the Mullicoupe and Mr. Mulligan in a pirep here:
http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepMullicoupe.html

http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepMullicoupe.html
 
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