RARE \"Renowned Aviator\" Martin Jensen Hand Signed TLS Dated 1929 Todd Mueller C For Sale

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RARE \"Renowned Aviator\" Martin Jensen Hand Signed TLS Dated 1929 Todd Mueller C:
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Up for sale aRARE! \"Renowned Aviator\" Martin Jensen Hand Signed TLS Dated 1929. There is tape on the rear of this very rare document across the creases from the folding of the document.This item is authenticated By ToddMueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity.

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Martin Jensen was a pioneer aviator. He was born in 1900 inJamestown, Kansas. He joined the U.S. Navy in World War I and after the war wasa barnstormer and stunt pilot, crossing the country in a biplane that hedesigned. In 1924, he established the Jensen Flying School at Dutch FlatsAirport in San Diego. In 1925, he completed a coast-to-coast flight in an OX-5Jenny. He placed second in the 1927 Dole Trans-Pacific Air Race, a race fromOakland to Honolulu in which ten pilots died. He piloted the Aloha, an airplanedesigned by Vance Breese in San Francisco. In the same year he transported theMGM Studios lion, Leo the Lion, in a specially built Ryan airplane. Thepublicity flight was to go from California to New York, but Jensen crashed in aremote area in Arizona. He was unhurt and the lion was transported to New Yorkby truck. Jensen developed the Jensen trainer for his own Jensen AircraftCorporation, which he lost in the stock market crash in 1929. After that he wasDean of Aviation and taught aeronautics at Beckley College in Pennsylvania, andhe also did show flying for the \"New York Daily News\" and TidewaterOil Company. In 1935, he joined Langley Aircraft as first vice president. Heworked on the design of a plastic molding known as the Langley Process. In 1940he went to work for Vincent Bendix at the Bendix Aviation Corporation. In 1944,Vincent Bendix established Bendix Helicopters. As a Bendix designer, MartinJensen devised the Bendix Model J single-seat helicopter, which used a systemof coaxial rotors driven by a 450hp Pratt & Whitney R-985 piston engine. In1951, he joined Douglas Aircraft. He retired in the mid-1960s in the San Diegoarea. During his retired years, he spent considerable time researching aircraftwing designs. Jensen died in San Diego on February 8, 1992.