#ormer locklear

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Viola Dana & Ormer Locklear

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Actor/stuntman Ormer Locklear crashes into a church steeple in a stunt for the lost movie "The Skywayman" from 1920.

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New-York Tribune Jun 1 1919 - In Atlantic City Ormer Locklear of Locklear’s Flying Circus clings to one plane waiting for a 2nd plane trailing a rope ladder. When ready Locklear will then jump from one plane to another

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During the filming of the lost five-reel movie The Skywayman (1920) stunt pilot and actor Pilot Ormer “Lock” Locklear flies his plane through a breakaway church steeple (as two stuntmen jump to safety).

Below, 2nd Lieutenant Locklear in 1919 retires from the U.S. Army Air Corps.

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Lt. S.J. Short, Lt. O. Locklear, Lt. Milton Elliott (LOC) by The Library of Congress Via Flickr: Bain News Service,, publisher. Lt. S.J. Short, Lt. O. Locklear, Lt. Milton Elliott [between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]

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Daredevil Ormer Locklear stands on the wing of Curtiss Jenny biplane going about 90 miles per hour in June of 1920.

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Best Stunts of The Year List 1913-1919

  The future versions of this list will be a decade list of the top stunts of every year as listed in the book, 100 Years of the Best Movie Stunts.  Since this is the first list, it will start with the first year listed in the book 1913 and move to the end of…

Best Stunts of The Year List 1913-1919 was originally published on Brothers' Ink Productions

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Ormer Locklear and the Great Air Robbery

  One of the early great pilots, Ormer Locklear is credited as having invented wing walking, when he went out on the wing of his plane to fix one of his engine’s during a flight.  Legend has it that he first climbed out onto the lower wings during his pilot training in the Army Air…

Ormer Locklear and the Great Air Robbery was originally published on Brothers' Ink Productions