OTTO WILLIAM BRODIE 1888-1913

	Otto Brodie - 1910

 

	Biography 1888-1913	Florida 1912	Blanche & Otto 1909-1913

 

		SLIDESHOW 246 Photographs Courtesy of Shellie Brodie

 

In the spring of 1913 Brodie started school operations again and on April 19th was instantly killed in a crash at Clearing while making a check flight in the Farman before taking up a student. He had made one circuit of the field and was preparing to land when he nosed in from a low altitude. He was badly crushed under the engine which had been torn from it's mounting, killing him instantly. Brodie had planned to give up active flying soon and turn his attention to building planes, and had one of his own design under construction at the time of his death at age 27. He was survived by his wife and two sons. Burial was in Montrose Cemetery, Chicago, Illinios Personal communication from Shelley Brodie, 12-30-05

 

PILOTS CERTIFICATE NO. 135 OTTO W. BRODIE      Otto W. Brodie, certificated pilot 135, was killed at Clearing, Illinois, in a Farman biplane said to be the very one used by Louis Paulhan in the London-Manchester flight. The cause of the accident was not capable of ascertainment. Brodie learned to fly at Hammondsport in 1909, and since then has piloted various mono-planes and biplanes in exhibition work. Aeronautics, May 1913, Page-194

 

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