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Jack Frye (left) Paul Richter (right) likely at their altitude record 1929

Between Frye and Richter (founders of TWA) is National Aeronautic Association (NAA) timekeeper and former race car driver, Joe Nikrent. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Frye en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_E._Richter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Nikrent

The gentleman on the left is Dr. Thomas C. Young, (prominent surgeon) Glendale, California. President of the California Aeronautical Association- mid-twenties, member of the Sheriff's Aero Squadron, and owner of the then famous "Wedding Ship" (not shown) in which many a wedding was performed over L.A.in the air. The gentleman on the right, is of course, the famous aviator Jack Frye (friend of Young) the location is likely Burdett operations, Western Avenue, date 1925.

Although this aircraft is obviously named "The Texan", it is not NC7888, the first aircraft of Standard Airlines to bear that name. NC7888 (c/n 617) was a Fokker F.VIIa with a single Pratt & Whitney Hornet R-1690 engine. It was lost in a crash on March 30, 1929. The shape of this airplane's cockpit and nose section shows that it is the second Standard Airlines aircraft to be named "The Texan", NC9169 (c/n 1038), a U.S.-built Fokker F-10A "Super Trimotor", powered by three Pratt & Whitney Wasp R-1340 engines, and built in July 1929, several months after the loss of NC7888. It only kept its name for a year before being sold to Western Air Express; it then passed to Transcontinental & Western Air and to American Airways before being scrapped in 1932.