aviator

Must be a Vultee V-1A -- Cearley says AA started flying them in Sept 1934.

René Fonck (1894-1953) French flying ace
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From Time Magazine, May 10, 1926

Fonck. Last week burly little Captain Rene Fonck of France, ace of Allied aces, Inspector General of French Aviation, strode down a gangplank in Manhattan and hurried out to Westbury, L. I., to fire questions at Engineer Igor Sikorsky of Russia. The scene of their talk was the Sikorsky airplane factory. The subject was a monster Sikorsky biplane, the S-35, which was being equipped with three 425 h.p. Gnome-Rhone Jupiter motors specially selected abroad and shipped here by Fonck to drive him, without pausing, from Long Island to Paris next autumn in an effort to win a standing prize of $25,000.* A preliminary non-stop flight, Long Island to Halifax and back, was scheduled for early July.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Fonck
'Colonel René Paul Fonck (27 March 1894 – 18 June 1953) was a French aviator who ended the First World War as the top Entente fighter ace and, when all succeeding aerial conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries are also considered, Fonck still holds the title of "all-time Allied Ace of Aces".'
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'During the 1920s, Fonck persuaded Igor Sikorsky to redesign the Sikorsky S-35 for the transatlantic race or Orteig Prize. On 21 September 1926, the aircraft crashed on takeoff when the landing gear collapsed, killing two of his three crew members. Charles Lindbergh won the prize seven months later in 1927.'

Thanks, Seuss. and swanq. We'll update the catalog record.

Georges Carpentier (1894-1975)
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983406

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Carpentier
"Georges Carpentier (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ kaʁ.pɑ̃ˈtje]; 12 January 1894 – 28 October 1975) was a French boxer, actor and World War I pilot. A precocious pugilist, Carpentier fought in numerous categories. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight and heavyweight in a career lasting from 1908 to 1926. A French professional champion on several occasions, he became the European heavyweight champion before the First World War. A sergeant aviator during the Great War, he was wounded before returning to civilian life. He then discovered rugby union, playing as a winger.

On his return to the ring in 1919, "le grand Georges" ("the great Georges" in English) he was celebrated as a symbol of a sporting powerhouse France, via performances in Great Britain and the United States of America. His knockout victory over Battling Levinsky on 12 October 1920 in Jersey City in the United States earned him the title of world champion. A defeat by Jack Dempsey the following year nevertheless strengthened his legend and brought him worldwide fame."