CHARLES TAYLOR
his family ahead to California and got on the three-car train that was to accompany the fl ight. One car of the train was a repair car where the aircraft parts would be stored and the aircraft repaired. It took Cal Rodgers 49 days to cross the United
States. Three days, ten hours of that was actual fl ying time. His longest single fl ight was 133 miles. He had 16 crashes and the aircraft was repaired so many times that at journey’s end only the vertical rudder, the engine drip pan, and a single strut of the
original plane remained — a test to the skill which Charlie used in keeping the aircraft fl ying. This was the last of Charlie’s big
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adventures. Charlie returned to Dayton and worked for the Wright- Martin Company until 1920. Charlie eventually moved to California and lost touch with Orville Wright, but things turned bad for Charlie. The Depression hit and Charlie’s machine shop failed. He lost his life’s savings in a real estate venture and his wife died. Charlie Taylor’s contribution to aviation was forgotten until 1937 when Henry Ford was reconstructing the old Wright bicycle shop in Dearborn, MI. Detectives found Charlie working at North American Aviation in Los Angeles for 37 cents an hour. None of his co-workers realized he had built the fi rst aircraft engine. Charlie worked for Ford until 1941 when he returned to California and worked 60 hours a week in a defense factory. However, in 1945 Charlie suff ered a heart attack and was never able to work again. In November 1955, a reporter
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discovered Charlie in Los Angles General Hospital’s charity ward — he was almost destitute. His income was his Social Security and an $800 a year annuity fund belatedly established by Orville Wright before his death in 1948. The aviation industry immediately started a campaign to raise funds for Charlie. He was moved to a private sanitarium where he died a few months later on January 30, 1956, at the age of 88. Having no close relatives, Charles E. Taylor was buried in the Portal of Folded Wings Mausoleum dedicated to aviation pioneers, located in Valhalla Memorial Park, Los Angeles. Charles E. Taylor was the last of
the three that shrunk the world by building the fi rst successful powered airplane — the mechanic who made the fl ight possible!
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