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MANAGEMENT IN AVIATION HISTORY BENCH MARKS


The off icial photograph of Emory C. Malick from the Glenn H. Curtiss School of Aviation at North Island, San Diego,


where Malick earned his Federation Aeronautique Interna- tionale aviator’s license on March 20, 1912. Photo: Courtesy of Mary Groce


BY GIACINTA BRADLEY KOONTZ AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN AVIATION HISTORY February has been designated “Black History Month” or “African-American History Month” in the U.S. since 1976


IN 1911, FAMED AVIATOR AND AIRCRAFT DESIGNER GLENN H. CURTISS ESTABLISHED A FLIGHT TRAINING SCHOOL, AND ALSO TESTED HIS FIRST HYDROAEROPLANES AT NORTH ISLAND, NEAR SAN DIEGO, CA. AMONG THOSE WHO BRAVED THEIR FIRST SOLOS IN CURTISS PUSHERS WAS A FLYER NOT KNOWN BY HISTORIANS NOR HIS OWN FAMILY UNTIL 2004.


EMERY CONRAD MALICK (1881-1958) If I had written this article about black aviators in the U.S. 10 years ago, I would not have known to include Emery Conrad Malick. Mary Groce and all the relatives she knew were not a black family. Yet as she sorted through an attic of forgotten treasures, she found documents which included Malick’s FAI license (No. 105) dated March 20, 1912. His photograph clearly disclosed that she was the


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great grand-niece of a black man she never knew existed. Since then she has sleuthed through old newspapers and museums for information about his life and fl ying career in order to write his biography. The Groce family shared their information with Patti


Williams, archivist for the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum. Williams put the discovery into perspective for all of us who research aviation history. “[Malick]


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