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NEIGHBORHOODS Museum to honor pioneer daredevil Locklear Fifty-thousand mourners lined both sides of Main Street as a funeral cortege made its way toward the Tarrant County Courthouse on Aug 8. 1920 In a city filled with aviation trailblazers, 29y e a r - o 1 d Ormer Locklear stood out. During World War I. ms laienis TARRANT WerC SUCh CHRONICLES '"auhe Army assigned him (o leaching duties rather than chance losing him in aerial combat. Later, he distinguished himself among the barnstorming pilots for his wing walking. Sadly, but perhaps fittingly, he was killed in an airplane crash. Renowned pilot and aircraft manufacturer Glenn E. Curtiss sent an airplane-shaped floral arrangement with 6-foot-long wings to the funeral along with a note: "Through his fearlessness and skill, Ormer Locklear has contributed immeasurably to the art of flying." BILL FAIRLEY Locklear. born in Cotao on Oct 28, 1891, was educated in Fort Worth public school* and at the L'niversily of Texas He was considered a daredevil for his early motorcycle feats, but his primary interests were science and the mechanics of aeronautics. When he was 20, Locklear began taking private flying lessons, and soon after bought a monoplane. In the Army Ai| Service, he displayed extraordinary skills as an aerial gunner and navigator After World War I. many military aviators turned from deadly dogfights to entertainment enterprises, Locklear teamed up with another pilot. Lt. Milton Elliott, who had trained with him at Barron Field near Evcrman. On the state (air circuit, Locklear was said to have invented the stunt of moving from one biplane to another at 5,000 feet. He would climb out onto the lower wing and bound to the lower wing of a nearby aircraft, holding onto the stmts. Locklear also left crowds open-mouthed with another perfected exploit, wing walking without a parachute. While Elliott piloted the biplane. Locklear stood on the lop wing, his arms above his head and his feet secured in strong leather straps moored to the w tng The daredevil waved and smiled to the crowd as the pilot buzzed the field. Locklear once commented. "1 don't do these things because I want to run the risk of being killed I do it to demonstrate what can be done Someday we will all be flying." Hollywood beckoned the dashing pilot as an actor and stuntman who flew through barns, crashed into houses and "walked" on wings. During filming for The Skywayman, Locklear and Elliott were to appear as if they were crashing in their burning airplane. At 8.000 feet. Locklear lit attached torches to simulate an aircraft in flames. As they nosed the plane into a shallow dive, it began burning furiously, went into a tailspin and. at 200 feet, the outof-control aircraft suddenly plunged to earth in a mass of flames. A battery of four motion picture cameras recorded every ' second of iheir tierv deaths During Locklear's funeral. Mulkey Street Memorial Church on Fort Worth's south side seas filled to overflowing, and hundreds more waited outside An American flag draped the casket, which was surrounded by huge banks of flowers. The centerpiece was a large wreath donated by Locklear's leading lady in The Sk\wa\man, Louise Lovely . A bugle sounded taps before the funeral procession departed for downtown and proceeded up Main Street to honor the man considered the father of aviation acrobatics. Locklear, who had built a house on Alston Avenue in 1912. was survived by a wife. Ruby, parents, two brothers and three sisters. Melrose Place star Heather Locklear has said she is related to the pilot He will be recognized in the planned Aviation Heritage Museum, which also features' such local pioneers as Amon Carter Sr.. who brought aviation heroes to Fort Worth and donated money for land used for aircraft production; A.P Barrett, whose Texas Air Transport became the nucleus for American Airlines; and astro naut Alan Bean, a Paschal High School graduate. Charles A. Kingler. executive vice president of the museum. said recently. "Locklear's outstanding abilities as a pilot, navigator, aerial gunner and flying instructor more than qualify him lor a place of honor among aviation's other historical greats in our museum." Tax-deductible contributions tnay be made to the Aviation J. Heritage Museum at >0b W, Seventh St.. Suite 311. Fort Worth 76102 Sourtes: Camp Borne. Fort Worth. 1917-1S. edited by Bill Jarv and Bernice B Mayl'ield: Star-Telegram. and Charles Ringler interview Hilt Fairies is a longtime Fort Worth resident interested in Texas histors. |H 17> .190--lot. bihairlf\UMjr ir I fit'am c,>m Daredevil pilot Omer lockiear wit do recognized in the Av.ation Heritage Museum in Fort Wcrtn Mclntyre Pushes for National Guard Educational Facility Washington. D C ? US Representative Mike Mclntyre has been pcrsonally meeting with his colleagues in the U.S. House Representatives to ask for their support of a North Carolina National Guard educational facility at Ft.Bragg. North Carolina Representative Mclntvrc stated. North Carolina's National Guard plays important missions at every level of government - federal, stale, and iueal As the Guard continues to serve our community. I want to make sure that it has the finest facilities available Therefore. I am doing all that I can to discuss with my colleagues the importance of funding this educational facility " Over the last several days. Mclntvrc has personally spoken vviili key Members of Congress on the House-Armed Services and Appropriations Committees including Representatives Flovd Spcncc (R-SC). Ike Skclton (DMO). Joel Hcfley (R-COL.O). GencTay lor (D-MISS). DavidHohson (R-OH). and John Olvcr (D-MASS) The North Carolina National Guard has been selected to establish a regional combat arms school at its present military academy at Ft.Bragg. The facility vyill teach students from Norili Carolina- South Carolina Georgia Florida Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands The school will conduct transition training for armor infantry, artillery, and ait defense artillery military occupational specialities The North Carolina National Guard and the IKth Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg have entered inn- a puiincixhip to develop an educational complex of shared facilities at Ft Bragg that will serve the needs of active and reserve component forces a| the same time The educational facility is tin lirsi project to develop front thai partnership Mclntyre. along with several of his North Carolina colleagues arc seeking 1.S.S7 million in federal funds that would build this facility oh a 3l> acre site at Ft Bragg. 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