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The pilot is Lt. Howard D. Norris (US Army Air Service). See: Page 206, Army List and Directory - February 1921 Unfortunately, there's little I can find on "H.J. Meyer", other than he flew with Norris as the Mechanic for the DH-4 they crewed during the 1919 Transcontinental Air Race. Although reportedly only slightly injured while flying westward in the race, their aircraft would crash into a hill on October 13, 1919 approximately nine miles from Oconto, Nebraska as they attempted to land. ("Plane No. 37 Falls To Earth Near Oconto," Page 7, The Ogden Standard (Ogden, Utah), October 13, 1919)

Howard Dutton Norris A little more on him from Who's who in American Aeronautics: books.google.com/books?id=VRpaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA80 I added him to Wikidata to have a centralized repository of biographical information: www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36026528 You should consider creating a Wikidata entry for each aviator not already in the database and adding the Q number to the image. It will tie all known information from diverse sources together in one database. I even created an entry at FamilySearch that captures him in the census and relates him to other family members and tied that to Wikidata.

Here is his obituary from the New York Times:

His tombstone application:

1919 Transcontinental Air Race www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36347793