Frank Monroe Hawks was a pilot in the United States Army Air Service during World War I and was known during the 1920s and 1930s as a record breaking aviator, using a series of Texaco-sponsored aircraft, setting 214 point-to-point records in the United States and Europe. Prolific in the media and continually in the "public eye", in the 1937 The Mysterious Pilot movie serial, Hawks was billed as the "fastest airman in the world." A popular saying from the time was, "Don't send it by mail ... send it by Hawks." After retiring from a career as an air racer, he died in 1938, flying an experimental aircraft.
Frank Hawks
Hawks with Oscar Grubb in 1929 before setting a transcontinental speed record
"Texaco Five"
Frank Hawks in the Texaco Eaglet, postcard, c. 1930
Marshalltown is a city in the U.S. state of Iowa and the seat of Iowa's Marshall County. With a population of 27,591 at the 2020 census, it is the 16th largest city in the state. Marshalltown is home to the Iowa Veterans Home and Marshalltown Community College. Marshalltown is known as the "Paris of the Prairie".
Image: Main Street Marshalltown
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Image: Marshall County Courthouse, Marshalltown, Iowa 10
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