Monday, November 10, 2008

Eddie A. Schneider "grew up" at Roosevelt Field, where he was a flunkey, mechanic and student flyer

Eddie A. Schneider "grew up" at Roosevelt Field, where he was a flunkey, mechanic and student flyer. He flew in the last two air tours, and in August of 1930, flew his Cessna to a round-trip transcontinental record for pilots under twenty-one. He made the trip in 57 hours, 14 minutes, carried greetings both ways between Los Angeles Mayor Porter, and Jersey City’s Frank Hague. Eddie Schneider was publicized as a Jersey City boy with a bare 300 hours flight time. In the late nineteen-thirties, Schneider went to Spain to fly for the Loyalists in the Revolution. But whatever promises of salary and glory were made him; he was back in New York within a short time. And as though cursed by the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, like so many other young men, Eddie Schneider was killed in a student training accident at Floyd Bennett Field just two days before Christmas, 1940. He was twenty-nine.

Source: National Air Tour

Eddie Schneider Sets 3 Records for Junior Fliers.


Eddie Schneider Sets 3 Records for Junior Fliers.

Roosevelt Field, New York, August 24, 1930 (Associated Press) Eighteen year-old Eddie Schneider of Jersey City, New Jersey landed here from Columbus, Ohio at 3:03 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) ...

Source: Greeley Daily Tribune; Greeley, Colorado; August 25, 1930

Tuesday, November 4, 2008




The facts of the collision, which resulted in the deaths of Eddie A. Schneider and Mr. George W. Herzog, as disclosed by the records of the Navy Department, ...

Person: Lucille Herzog (1928-?), Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940), and George Wilson Herzog (1903-1940).

Source: United States Congressional Serial Set by United States Government Printing Office, 1942

Mrs. Gretchen Schneider, for the funeral of Eddie Schneider.





Mrs. Eddie A. Schneider. The Navy Department in a letter to my attorneys, advised that the Navy ... Mrs. Gretchen Schneider, for the funeral of Eddie Schneider. Professional services
$365. 00 embalming remains, casket, name plate, palms, use of chapel, ...

Source: United States Congressional Serial Set by United States Government Printing Office, 1941, page 9

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Yankee Air Squadron Quits Loyalists in Spanish Fight


Yankee Air Squadron Quits Loyalists in Spanish Fight

Paris, January 5, 1937 (United Press) When the Spanish Loyalists came near shooting Major Frederick Lord because a wing of his plane fell off, and Bert Acosta was thrown bodily out of air ministry at Valencia, America's four-man air squadron decided it was time to demobilize and retire from the civil war, their spokesman said here. ...

Source: The Charleston Daily Mail; Charleston, West Virginia; January 5, 1937