MANAGEMENT IN AVIATION HISTORY BENCH MARKS


This group photograph was taken at Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale between 1937 and 1941. Bud Hadley is fiſt h from the leſt , back row. Photo: The City of Glendale.


Bud was also employed at Loud Engineering, which made landing gear parts for bombers. At the end of WWII, Lance Loud sold his factory to Bud who continued to make aircraft parts in his newly formed, B.H. Hadley Company. Bud’s company also made parts for motorcycles which may have been the result of a friendship with racing enthusiast, Joe Petrali, known to be a “mechanical wizard” who had once worked for Howard Hughes. While operating his manufacturing


business in Pomona, Bud fi led eleven patents for a wide variety of mechanical parts including those for a Drilling Machine, a Diaphragm Valve, and Shrapnel packaging – which was a method for packing small metal pieces around anti-aircraft rounds that increased the radius of the blast. By the mid 1950s, Bud and his


wife, Jo, had four children and his business had entered the Space Age by manufacturing cryogenic valves for Atlas rockets. In the 1960s Bud took over Schwien Engineering which manufactured manometers. His son, Bob, recalls that Schwien “was a family business – all of us kids worked there at one point.”


20 | DOMmagazine.com | may 2016 Through the Depression and


WWII, Bud remained true to his plan for a career in aviation while remaining close to those he loved. Bud raised his family in Pomona, where he continued to be an active member of his community. Bud Hadley died in 1997, just


miles from where he was born. His mechanical skills, passion for aviation, and sense of community continue within his sons Bob and Jim. Bob has built kit aircraft and remains a private pilot. Jim is now President of Schwien Engineering.


REFERENCES Hadley, Robert, personal communication, telecom and


emails, 2012; and February 16, 2016 -April 8, 2016


Kidder, Charles “Chief”, “Annual Maintenance Number”, an article in Aviation Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 12, pp 80-81, 176, December 1941


Koontz, Giacinta Bradley, Pioneer Mechanics in Aviation, Running Iron Pub., AZ, 2015


Underwood, John, Madcaps, Millionaires, and Mose, Heritage Press, CA, 1984


Underwood, John, Grand Central Air Terminal, Arcadia, CA, 2006


Wynne, H. Hugh, The Motion Picture Stunt Pilots and Hollywood’s Classic Aviation Movies, Pictorial Publishing Co., MT, 1987


INTERNET


http://kyuk.org/new-aircraft-mechanic-school- ready-just-needs-students/ Aircraft Maintenance School – Alaska


http://www.matchcollege.com/schools/aircraft- mechanic#show_results List of American trade schools off ering aircraft mechanic courses


http://www.pomonaheritage.org/ph_website_ january_2014_011.htm Pomona California Old Heritage Museum


http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/halloff ame/ detail.aspx?RacerID=54 Joe Petrali


http://grandcentralair.glendaleca.gov/pages/photo_ album/1930s.htm Grand Central Air Terminal class of CWTI 1930s


http://www.circoraerospace.com/company-loud- engineering-facts.asp LOUD Engineering


http://dmairfi eld.com/people/bragunier_ac/ Lloyd Downs, movie stunt pilot also Garland Lincoln, Waterman, et al


http://dmairfi eld.com/people/granger_je/The%20 Golden%20Age%20of%20Local%20Air%20Racing.pdf Lloyd Downs in air races – Granger Family in Aviation


http://www.airliners.net/aviation-articles/read. main?id=53 America’s oldest aviation maintenance trade school


Giacinta Bradley Koontz


is an aviation historian, magazine columnist and author who has received the DAR History Medal


and honorable mention from the New York Book Festival. She has appeared on the History Channel and in PBS documentaries. For more information, visit www.GiaBKoontz.com..


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