DIARY OF JIMMIE MATTERN (4 SHOWS) OLD TIME RADIO MP3 CD

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THE DIARY OF JIMMIE MATTERN
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Jimmie Mattern
' was born on March 8th, 1905 in Freeport, Illinois.  Jimmie took his first flight, in a JN-4 Jenny, while he was stationed with the army in Hawaii.  He returned to the United States and spent several years playing in a band on ocean liners traveling the pacific.  In 1926 Jimmy learned to fly at Ryan Field in San Diego, purchased a Waco 10 and did some barnstorming.  Deciding to settle in California Jimmie became a Hollywood Stunt pilot flying aircraft in the films Hell’s Angels, Lilac Time, and Wings, among others.  In 1929 Jimmie began flying cargo for Tex Mex Industries.  This led to him getting a job as a pilot with a Texas oil wildcatter named Carl Cromwell.  In 1929/1930 Cromwell decided to start a local Texas airline that would operate between Oklahoma, Fort Worth, San Angelo, and Brownsville, Texas.  Jimmie became chief pilot for Cromwell Airlines (as it was called) until the airline folded in 1932. After leaving Cromwell Jimmie decided to attempt to beat the around the world flight record recently set by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty.  Mattern teamed up with a friend named Bennett Griffin who would serve as navigator and co-pilot. With the backing of the Standard Oil Company, Clarence Page, and others, the two men would attempt to fly a modified Lockheed Vega named “The Century of Progress” around the world. In 1932 they took off on their around the world adventure.  Mattern and Griffin first set the speed record to Berlin.  After leaving Berlin they were approaching Moscow when a hatch on their plane broke loose.  It struck the tail section of the plane and forced Mattern to set the aircraft down.  Although they had arranged for permission to over fly Russia, local officials arrested the aviators and held them for propaganda purposes.  Eventually they were taken to Moscow and The Kremlin, where they were interrogated as spies.  The US government and local contacts eventually secured Mattern and Griffin’s release, and the two aviators made their way back to the United Sates by commercial airliner and steamship, stopping in many of Europe’s capital cities.  Eventually the Russian’s crated up the wreckage of “The Century of Progress” and shipped it back to Jimmy. (Source: University of Texas at Dallas)
DIARY OF JIMMIE MATTERN (
4 EPISODES
)
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TIME: 00:59:35
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36-05-25 (061) Jimmie Meets Jack Clark - Pure Oil Contest Winner Announced
36-05-26 (062) Roosevelt's Bank Holiday Sets Back Plans for Jimmie's Flight
36-05-27 (063) Jimmie Takes Off on His Around-the-World Flight
36-05-28 (064) Jimmie Gets Stuck in Siberia for 14 Days [Final Show Tomorrow Night]