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Maj Gen Sullivan

Major General Kevin Sullivan, Commander, Ogden Air Logistics Center
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Tymofichuk

Col. Randy B. Tymofichuk
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Teri Gibby

Teri Gibby, the Hill Innovation Development Through Employee Awareness Program manager
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Plane Talk

Hill Aerospace Museum and the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah host a popular lecture series in the fall and winter each year called "Plane Talk." These free lectures about airplanes and the people who fly them are open to the general public.
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Robert Crawford

In 1938, Liberty magazine sponsored a contest for a spirited, enduring musical composition to become the official Army Air Corps song. Of 757 scores submitted, the one composed by Robert MacArthur Crawford (1899-1961) was selected by a committee of Air Force wives.
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Lt Walter Harvey & Lt Nate Mazer

Only two aircraft in the entire Eighth Air Force were ever named after individuals and both of them were in the 384th Bomb Group. Lieutenant Walter Harvey (left) was known as "Big Dog" and B-17 42-102661 SU-L was named in his honor after he was shot down. Lieutenant Nathan "Mike" Mazer (right) was a squadron armaments officer, but went on many combat missions unofficially. As he was Jewish, B-17 42-98000 SU-J was named "Fightin' Hebe" as a tribute to his spirit.
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Colonel Tibbets

The Commander of the Group was then-Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., and it was to operate only one squadron, the 393rd Bombardment Squadron (Very Heavy), commanded by Major Charles W. Sweeney.
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Bleriot Monoplane

Louis had taken off in his Bleriot monoplane head-on into the path of an aircraft flown by Leon de la Grange, and Paulhan was forced to dive toward the ground to avoid a collision. Louis was too low, however, and his wingtip struck the earth causing the aircraft to cartwheel in a crack-up that ejected the "King of the Air": from his perch. Louis was thrown clear of the wreckage and walked away with only a gashed nose and a bruised ego. La Grange, lucky in this incident, was killed five months later when a wing detached from his aircraft inflight.
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Paul Martini

This paper was written in 1997 by aviation enthusiast Anthony Paul Martini of Salt Lake City. At the time, Mr. Martini was an air traffic controller at the Salt Lake Air Route Traffic Control Center at Salt Lake International Airport. He donated this work to the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah for the benefit and enjoyment of visitors to Hill Aerospace Museum.
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Sopwith Camel

On Oct. 10th, the eventual winner of the Air Race, Lt. “Parson” Maynard landed at Salt Lake City. The Baptist minister-turned-aviator, along with his traveling companion “Trixie” the German shepherd, told the crowd that the worst part of the trip was between Rawlins, Wyoming and Buena Vista field, where it was “extremely cold over the mountains.” The “parson” had red eyes from the wind and cold and was almost deaf from the Liberty engine. Mechanics at Buena Vista field had to shout their questions to the pilots on the ground. Maynard had been an Army aviator in France, and held the world looping record, with 318 consecutive loops in 66 minutes performed in a Sopwith Camel.
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Silas Christofferson

The following year, 1913, again brought a nationally known aviator to Salt Lake City. In August, Salt Lake City was celebrating its annual “Wizard of the Wasatch Festival”, a carnival and parade of progress, and hired the owner of the Christofferson Aviation Company in San Francisco to perform. Silas Christofferson was a leading California aviator, designing and manufacturing his own planes and teaching aviators in “the science of aerial navigation”. On June 11, 1912, Silas had flown the roof of the Multnomah Hotel in Portland, Oregon, across the Columbia River to Vancouver, Washington. He and his brother Harry came to Salt Lake City to open the Wizard of the Wasatch Festival on August 29, 1913.
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Walter Brookins

Representing the Wright brothers were Walter Brookins and Phil Parmalee, while the Curtiss Company sent Eugene Ely and Charles Willard. Brookins was a chief pilot of the Wright brothers, and Parmalee was recently known for his demonstrations of military aviation capabilities
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Charles Walsh

Ogden greatly desired an aerial event that would bring them into the aviation business arena, and Dr. H. M. Rowe of the Four-State Fair Association was assigned the task of acquiring such an event. Contacting the Curtiss Aeroplane Company, Dr. Rowe negotiated the services of aviator Charles F. Walsh to appear at the Fair. Walsh had been performing at County and State Fairs in the East, sort of a “flying advertisement” for the Curtiss Company.
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Phil Parmalee

Representing the Wright brothers were Walter Brookins and Phil Parmalee, while the Curtiss Company sent Eugene Ely and Charles Willard. Brookins was a chief pilot of the Wright brothers, and Parmalee was recently known for his demonstrations of military aviation capabilities
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Clarence Walker

Many Utah men yearned to fly the real airships, while others turned their interests toward invention of their own flying machines. One of these inspired young Salt Lake men was Clarence H. Walker, the first Utahn to become a professional aviator.
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King of the Air

Louis Paulhan, King of the Air, Louis Paulhan was literally "on top of the world". At the Los Angeles Air Meet he had shattered the world altitude record by soaring to 4,165 feet above sea level, surpassing his own prior world record of about 1900 feet, established the previous month in Europe. Paulhan had sailed higher than any man on earth in a "heavier-than-air machine", and was awarded $10,000 in prize money and the title "King of the Air" for his efforts.
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Browning

Frank Milton Browning, 1897-1969
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Hill AFB 1

Hill AFB
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Hill 2

Major Ployer Peter Hill
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Hill

Major Ployer Peter Hill for whom the base is named after.
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