ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Via email from Michael Miller, 3-9-04
Additional on Taliaferro: Served as a private, corporal and sergeant in the One Hundred and Tenth Coast Artillery from 09/12/01 to 09/02/08. Made Second Lieutenant in 21st Infantry on 08/02/08. On 09/17/15 (about a month before he died in the crash) he broke the American sustained flight record for pilot alone by remaining aloft 9 hours and 48 minutes. Would have remained aloft longer but developed a fuel leak.
from the San Diego Union (and Daily Bee) of October 12, 1915.
Via email from Michael Miller, 3-9-04
Additional on Taliaferro: Served as a private, corporal and sergeant in the One Hundred and Tenth Coast Artillery from 09/12/01 to 09/02/08. Made Second Lieutenant in 21st Infantry on 08/02/08. On 09/17/15 (about a month before he died in the crash) he broke the American sustained flight record for pilot alone by remaining aloft 9 hours and 48 minutes. Would have remained aloft longer but developed a fuel leak.
from the San Diego Union (and Daily Bee) of October 12, 1915.
ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Via email from Michael Miller, 3-9-04
Additional on Taliaferro: Served as a private, corporal and sergeant in the One Hundred and Tenth Coast Artillery from 09/12/01 to 09/02/08. Made Second Lieutenant in 21st Infantry on 08/02/08. On 09/17/15 (about a month before he died in the crash) he broke the American sustained flight record for pilot alone by remaining aloft 9 hours and 48 minutes. Would have remained aloft longer but developed a fuel leak.
from the San Diego Union (and Daily Bee) of October 12, 1915.
Via email from Michael Miller, 3-9-04
Additional on Taliaferro: Served as a private, corporal and sergeant in the One Hundred and Tenth Coast Artillery from 09/12/01 to 09/02/08. Made Second Lieutenant in 21st Infantry on 08/02/08. On 09/17/15 (about a month before he died in the crash) he broke the American sustained flight record for pilot alone by remaining aloft 9 hours and 48 minutes. Would have remained aloft longer but developed a fuel leak.
from the San Diego Union (and Daily Bee) of October 12, 1915.
