EDMUND T. ALLEN
(c 1896 – 18 FEB 1943)

Thursday, March 4, 1943 - - The world-famous test pilot, Edmund T. Allen, who was killed with ten others at Seattle last month, has a sister living here. She is Mrs. F. J. Reynolds, wife of the Vocational Agriculture teacher in the local high school.

Allen and the others lost their lives when a four-motored Boeing bomber crashed into a packing plant at Seattle. According to news dispatches about the crash said Allen, who presumably was in charge of the flight although not at the controls, was one of the four men who bailed out when the plane was close to the ground.

Allen, 47 years old, joined Boeing as chief of the research division and director of flight in 1939. Other aircraft companies frequently borrowed him to test their new ships. Only last month he piloted a Lockheed constellation on its initial flight.

Allen was in the Signal Corps aviation section during the first World War. After the war he became the first test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field.

THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida