Talk:Albert Cushing Read

Nickname "Putty"
I've read that he acquired the nickname "Putty Read". Can anyone explain this and is it suitable for inclusion? -- JackofOz (talk) 00:15, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Done. --  JackofOz (talk) 01:05, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

prediction
The current version refers to the NYT but with-out a link. Here is what Richard K. Smith's ''First Across! The U.S. Navy's Transatlantic Flight of 1919 (1973)quotes Read as writing, "As far as that future was concerned, to Read the horizons were unlimited:  '...anyone in the present age of new and startling inventions who says positively that we will never attain an altitude of 60,000 feet, will never fly at 500 miles an hour,, or will never be able to cross to Europe int he forenoon and return in the afternoon is a most courageous person, with a courage similar to that of those doubters in theolden days who hproclaimed that iron or steel ships would never be successful'" (p. 198, with a footnote to the Read quotation:  Read, N. C. Triumph of the N.C.'s'', p. 231). Smith was historian for the Smithsonian's air museum. Kdammers (talk) 05:36, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Date of birth
I have changed his date of birth to 29 March 1887, which is cited in his Navy personnel and Arlington burial records. His birth certificate on Commons and his reference on Find A Grave cite 29 April 1887, so the true month of birth remains unclear. – Maliepa (talk) 17:08, 27 October 2020 (UTC)