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Now that Dad is gone, I'll tell what I know. When we were talking about the pictures of it in 2014, I asked him what had happened to the Hynes prototype. He told me at the time not to tell, but everyone I know of that ever knew anything is gone, now. He told me cn #501 was not included in the sale o...

Olvis LaVon Jones, 92, passed away Saturday, June 18, 2016 at his home in Cache. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday June 22nd at Indiahoma First Baptist Church with Pastor Les Banks officiating. Burial will be at Springhill Cemetery south of Cooperton. Arrangements are under the direction of Beck...

Mother asked me to scan some more photos for her
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx16 ... 941X03.jpg
That is one he restored and sold while he was working for himself. He said when he got it, it was a fuselage and a bunch of parts.

Here is what I know now about the above picture. Mother had said they went through some pictures and she wrote down on the back what he said. At that time he said B-2A so that's what she wrote on the back of that one. She didn't know when it was taken or who gave it to him but it wasn't painted, yet...

I have a picture I was trying to add, but when I tried to upload it, it didn't work.

My mom added it up the other day, starting in 1959 in Frederick until he decided Lear wasn't serious about either him training someone on what he knew or on making Brantly a success and he left Kansas, saying he wouldn't be back. The Hynes years, then he quit Hynes and started working on Brantlys an...

1964, Look At Life
a series that I think was shown in British theaters before the films
http://youtu.be/RwMhSd0Pamk?t=3m40s

I tried to attach it but couldn't. If you want to add it to your articles section, I've got it in my Dropbox, for now. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hah6p38zwnrr6kc/The_Lawton_Constitution_And_Morning_Press_Sun__Aug_4__1957_.pdf?dl=0 The article, from August 1957, says they were building parts but hadn'...

We moved to Mineral Wells after Christmas 1956. Daddy went to work for Southern Airways at Camp Wolters. His friend, Rex Fennel, had urged him to come. He was trained to be a mechanic on the Hiller, the pilots also taught him to fly them. That is where he met Harold Jenkins, who was already working ...

I found this old picture from the 70s, the guy on the right is my dad. http://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc366329/