Charles W. "Speed" Holman

Charles W. Holman
Born
Charles Willis Holman

December 27, 1898
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
DiedMay 17, 1931(1931-05-17) (aged 32)
Omaha, Nebraska, US
Resting placeAcacia Park Cemetery Mendota Heights, Minnesota[1]

Charles Willis "Speed" Holman (December 27, 1898 – May 17, 1931) was an American stunt pilot, barnstormer, wing walker, parachutist, airmail pilot, record-holding aviator, and airline pilot. Born in Bloomington, Minnesota, in 1926 he became the first pilot hired by Northwest Airways and later its first operations manager.[2] In 1928, Holman set a world record of 1,433 consecutive loops in an airplane in five hours over the St. Paul Airport.[3]

  1. ^ Stew Thornley. Six Feet Under: A Graveyard Guide to Minnesota. p. 19.
  2. ^ "He Belonged to the Heights and the Heights Claimed Him" (PDF). Contrails. No. 210. Retired Northwest Airlines Pilots' Association. February 2020. p. 11.
  3. ^ (nd) Ask A Historian Archived 2012-06-03 at the Wayback Machine. Ramsey County Historical Society. Retrieved 5/31/07.