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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug
Taken somewhere over Los Angeles in 1945. That's all I know about this picture.
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That's a postcard image from
1925 by an unknown photographer.
The plane is a Curtis JN-4 "Jenny", cruising speed, 40-60 MPH.
The man in the foreground is Ivan Unger.
The woman in the high-heeled boots is Gladys Roy.
The pair were members of the "13 Black Cats" famous wing-walkers of the 1920s. There were many other troops, including "The 5 Blackbirds" (all African-American) and "Mabel Cody's Flying Circus", headed up by Buffalo Bill's niece. Charles Lindbergh was a wing-walker.
Roy (née Smith), from Minnesota, moved to Los Angeles in 1921. She also maintained a residence in her home state. All three of her siblings were flyers too.
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Roy was killed in 1927, at the age of 27, when she, apparently momentarily distracted, walked into the spinning propeller of a parked plane she had just exited after a photo shoot:
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Gladys Roy's IMDB page is
here
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I couldn't find anything else on Unger.
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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug
Chapulines, plural for chapulín are small grasshoppers of the genus Sphenarium, that are commonly eaten in certain areas of Mexico.
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They're delicious fried, but I've been vegan for a long time now, so haven't indulged lately.
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