Cleo Pineau
Cleo Francis Pineau (born July 23, 1893 in Albuquerque , New Mexico , † May 29, 1972 in Williamsport , Pennsylvania ) was a motorcycle racer and as a lieutenant a flying ace of the First World War , in which he won six dogfights. He later became a director in the steel industry.
youth
Pineau was the son of Thomas L. and Adele Gstalder Pineau. He left school during the sixth grade of high school. Before the First World War he was a motorcycle racer. He rode a Flying Merkel and Indians and once even defeated Barney Oldfield . He also drove in the "Globe of Death" Motordrom as a vaudeville artist.
First World War
He was recruited into the Royal Flying Corps in December 1917 , and trained at the Curtis Aviation School in Buffalo , New York . He was transferred to the 210 Squadron on June 2, 1918 . Between September 6 and October 8, 1918, he flew a Sopwith Camel and shot down four Fokker D.VIIs and two other enemy aircraft. After his sixth victory in the air, he was shot at by a Fokker triplane near Roeselare and was taken prisoner of war.
post war period
Pineau became a motorcycle racer again in the 1920s and won several Motordrom world records. He continued to be interested in aviation, participated in the establishment of the Williamsport-Lycoming-County-Airport and supported it through his friends in the aviation industry (including his friend Wiley Post ).
He founded the Radiant Steel Company in 1927 or 1928 as an offshoot of the Darling Valve and Manufacturing Company . In 1948 he became its president and held that post until his retirement in 1969. He died in 1972.
literature
- Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920. Christopher F. Shores, Norman LR Franks, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1990. ISBN 0-948817-19-4 , ISBN 978-0-948817-19-9 .
- Williamsport: Boomtown on the Susquehanna . Robin Van Auken, Louis E Hunsinger. Arcadia Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0-7385-2438-7 , ISBN 978-0-7385-2438-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/usa/pineau.php Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ↑ a b c d Williamsport: Boomtown on the Susquehanna , pp. 100-102.
- ↑ a b Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920 .
- ↑ a b c http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/newspaper-articles/32777-cleo-f-pineau-former-radiant-steel-head-dies.html Retrieved February 18, 2010.
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20131019091700/http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/526275.html?nav=20 Retrieved February 18, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pineau, Cleo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pineau, Cleo Francis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Motorcycle racer, fighter pilot in World War I and steel industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Albuquerque , New Mexico |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1972 |
| Place of death | Williamsport , Pennsylvania |