frankclarke

I found your other post from 2018, that has a lot of info that might help anyone searching www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/30180297207, but incomplete. It's from Wiki... Frank Clarke (29 December 1898 – 12 June 1948) was a Hollywood stunt pilot, actor,[1] and military officer. His most prominent role was as Leutnant von Bruen (and double for von Richthofen in combat scenes) in the 1930 production Hell's Angels, but he flew for the camera and performed stunts in more than a dozen films in the 1930s and 1940s. Clarke was killed in an aircraft crash near Isabella, California, in 1948 (more at Wiki). A Google image search was not successful (so far).

I can't spend more time on this. I think the "Hells Angels" Howard Hughes film photos might be a good search. Unfortunately my LA Times subscription ended last week. They have any amazing photo archive. Good luck.

Congrats on Explore! ⭐ November 2, 2021

Glückwunsch zu Explore !

Congrats on Explore, outstanding capture, love it! Have a nice day :)

That is aviator Frank Tomick, not Swede Meyerhoffer, on the right side of the frame. Perhaps his nickname was also "Swede"? See: Page 77 of the October 9, 1921 edition of The Pittsburgh Press newspaper In a tragic turn of events, Clarke would perish 27 years later while attempting to "bomb" Tomick's cabin with a bag of manure. From Wikipedia: On June 13, 1948, Clarke was flying his Vultee BT-13 Valiant to Kernville, California, with a pilot friend, Mark Owens. They were on their way to visit a retired fellow-Hollywood flying buddy, Frank Tomick. Clarke decided it would be amusing to drop a bag of manure on Tomick's cabin. "Clarke pushed the throttle forward in what was to have been a dive-bombing run. Tomick watched in horror as the plane plunged straight down into the ground and exploded. The sack of fertilizer had jammed behind the control stick, locking it."

Paul Mantz (center) See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mantz

Definitely Mantz in the center. That may be Frank Clarke to his left (photo right).