Bert Acosta
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Bertrand Blanchard Acosta was a record-setting aviator and test pilot. He and Clarence D. Chamberlin set an endurance record of 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds in the air. He later flew in the Sp
Acosta (left) with Joseph Terleph in c. 1931 following the successful first flight of the Terle Sportplane
Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, also known as Valhalla Memorial Rotunda and The Rotunda, is a 72-foot-tall shrine to aviation located at the former entrance to Valhalla Memorial Park Ce
Bert Acosta
…hospitalized with tuberculosis. He died at the Jewish Consumptive's Relief Society sanatorium in Colorado in 1954. He was 59. Acosta was buried at the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California. In 2014, Acosta was posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame…
The structure in 2006
The structure up close
Embellishment under the rotunda
Marker plaques inside the shrine