Warbird Information Exchange

clayton scott, boeing's chief corporate pilot has died at 101 years old. he learned to fly from air mail pilots. in 1932 scott met bill boeing, & took him on a sight seeing trip. boeing hired mr scott as a pilot for boeing's airline united air transport which would eventually become united airlines. scott later became bill boeing's personal pilot. during ww 2 clayton scott test flew more than 1000 b-17 bombers before they were shipped off to the war. he also flew the db-7, a-20, b-50, b-52, c-97, 707, & the 727. he had a pretty impressive flying career!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

You can see an edited interview I did with Clayton in May 2005 at www.timelessvoices.org. Click on the "Pioneers" video category, then scroll to "Scott, Clayton" and click Play...

Zack

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Volunteer Coordinator/Curator - Military Aviation Museum - Virginia Beach, VA
"America's Flying Museum"
http://www.militaryaviationmuseum.org