• Lt. Oakley Kelly, a white man, stands while wearing aviator gear.
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    Lt. Oakley Kelly served as an instructor at the Army’s Rockwell Field in California from 1916 to 1919. While serving as an engineering test pilot at McCook Field, he co-conceived the original idea for the transcontinental flight with fellow pilot Lt. Muir S. Fairchild. Kelly was involved in modifying and piloting the T-2 for the first nonstop transcontinetal flight.

  • Lt. Oakley Kelly, a white man, stands while wearing aviator gear.

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