Template:Did you know nominations/Doug Davis (aviator)


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The result was: promoted by Mifter (talk) 18:59, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Doug Davis

 * ... that in 1927, barnstormer Doug Davis let 12-year-old Paul Tibbets drop Baby Ruth candy bars (attached to little parachutes) from his biplane over Hialeah for a promotion, kindling the boy's love of flying? Source: Los Angeles Times article (http://articles.latimes.com/2007/nov/02/local/me-tibbets2), also two books that I haven't read in the Tibbets article
 * ALT1: ... that air racer Doug Davis warned that someone might die because the course for the 1934 Thompson Trophy Race was too short, then himself fatally crashed while in the lead? Source: book  Griffin, Georgia: We Could Have Been Famous... Volume 2: Heroes, 1890-1949 (https://books.google.ca/books?id=P4vxCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA321&lpg=PA321) and article "Doug Davis- Air Racer, Barnstormer, Airline Pilot" in Airport Journals (http://airportjournals.com/doug-davis-air-racer-barnstormer-airline-pilot/)
 * Reviewed: William Dempster.

Created by Clarityfiend (talk). Self-nominated at 08:27, 28 November 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Size and date check out, referencing is proper, QPQ done, spot checks indicate no copyplag issues. Good to go. Suggest the prime hook - The Bushranger One ping only 01:36, 2 December 2017 (UTC)