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National Air Races (Mines Field) now LAX 1936 Jack Frye speaker

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

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.