Arthur Burns "Pappy" Chalk
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Arthur Burns "Pappy" Chalk
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Arthur Burns "Pappy" Chalk was an American aviation pioneer and the founder of Chalk's Ocean Airways, once the world's oldest continuously operating airline. Born on a farm in Unionville, Illinois, Chalk was an enrolled Choctaw Freedman. At 11, Chalk left home and moved to Paducah, Kentucky, where he worked as a bicycle mechanic. In 1911, he received flying lessons from the famed pilot Tony Jannus in exchange for repairing Jannus's aircraft. Chalk then purchased his own plane, barnstormed for se
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2024-09-03T19:42:47Z
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2024-09-04T19:28:33Z
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