Project Officer for Fighters, Captain Ben Kelsey tested a great number of aircraft models, possibly flying more new types of US fighters than any other pilot. He was first to fly the Bell twin-Allison XFM-1 Airacuda prototype on September 1, 1937 and the Bell XP-39. Captain Kelsey is exiting a Curtiss P-36 A at Wright Field.

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