Jack McGee (aviator)
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Jack McGee was a pioneer aviator.
to Robert McGee. His family moved to Pawtucket, Rhode Island
when he was 15 in 1900. He was a boxer and worked as an elevator operator and auto mechanic before working as a chauffeur for James C. McCoy. McGee took flying lessons in 1911 and made his first solo flight in August 1912. In 1917, McGee went to work as a test pilot for the Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation.
On June 13, 1918 he was flying a pontoon plane low over Greenwich Bay
when his pontoon dipped into the water, causing his plane to topple into the water where he drowned.
Biography
McGee was born in 1885 in Central Falls, Rhode IslandCentral Falls, Rhode Island
Central Falls is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 19,376 at the 2010 census. With an area of only , it is the smallest and most densely populated city in the smallest state, and the thirty-second most densely populated incorporated place in the United...
to Robert McGee. His family moved to Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 71,148 at the 2010 census. It is the fourth largest city in the state.-History:...
when he was 15 in 1900. He was a boxer and worked as an elevator operator and auto mechanic before working as a chauffeur for James C. McCoy. McGee took flying lessons in 1911 and made his first solo flight in August 1912. In 1917, McGee went to work as a test pilot for the Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation.
On June 13, 1918 he was flying a pontoon plane low over Greenwich Bay
Greenwich Bay (Rhode Island)
Greenwich Bay, is a bay on the coast of Rhode Island in the United States near East Greenwich, Rhode Island off of Narragansett Bay.The United States Navy seaplane tender USS Greenwich Bay, in commission from 1945 to 1966, was named for the bay....
when his pontoon dipped into the water, causing his plane to topple into the water where he drowned.