Art Smith (pilot)
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Arthur Roy Smith was an American pilot. After Charles Ames, he was the second overnight mail service pilot to die on duty.
Art Smith 1915
Art Smith posing in the muzzle of a 12-inch mortar at the Presidio of San Francisco during the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition
Airmail pilot Arthur Roy Smith in 1924
Art Smith with his mother in Honolulu, Hawaii, aboard the Siberia Maru
Kwon Ki-ok
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Kwon Ki-ok was a Korean aviator. She is the first Korean female pilot and one of the first female pilots to fly in China. Her name in Chinese is Quan Jiyu. Kwon went into exile in China during the Jap
Art Smith (pilot)
…1916 and 1917. His aerobatics demonstrations in Korea during those trips are believed to have inspired both An Chang-nam (Korea's first male pilot) and Kwon Ki-ok (Korea's first female pilot) to learn to fly. Smith later worked as a test pilot and instructor after the American entry into World War I. He had…
Kwon in China, 1935