Schneider Off On Non-Stop Flight. Wichita, Kansas, August 23, 1930 (Associated Press) Eddie Schneider, eighteen-year-old Jersey City youth ... junior fliers last week.
Source: Decatur Daily Review; Decatur, Illinois; Saturday, August 23, 1930
Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) circa 1930-1940
Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940)
He set the transcontinental airspeed record for pilots under the age of 21 in 1930. He fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War in 1937 and he died in a plane crash in 1940 when a Navy pilot clipped the tail of his plane, and his plane crashed.
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