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Jan 27, 1913 Died on 23 Dec 2003 (aged 90)
American aviation pioneer and writer
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About Harry B. Combs
- Harry Combs (27 January 1913 – 23 December 2003), from Denver, Colorado, was a United States aviation pioneer and the author of many books. Harry Combs "lived and breathed the Golden and Jet Ages of aviation" according to the governmental U.S.
- Centennial of Flight Commission, in a 2003 press release.
- The release stated that Combs saw his first airplane at the age of four-and-a-half and also in his youth was influenced by the book "Diary of an Unknown Aviator"—a World War I chronicle by Elliot White Springs.
- Combs' father, Albert, was shot down twice in World War I, and was said to have warned his son never to set foot in an airplane.
- Nonetheless, the young Combs paid $2.50 for a ride in a mail plane at the age of 13; then, two years later, inspired by an advertisement for $99 flying lessons, made his way to St.
- Louis, MO for three hours of flight instruction, soloing immediately thereafter.
- He graduated from Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School in 1935 with a degree in applied economics.
