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Lt. Arthur Murray alights from a P-80 during the University of Michigan's dedication of Willow Run airport. Photographer: Eck Stanger

Lt. Arthur Murray alights from a P-80 during the University of Michigan's dedication of Willow Run airport. image
Year:
1947
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 30, 1947
Caption:
As P-80 Pilot Alights: Lt. Arthur Murray, 28, of Wright Field, O., is shown alighting from the P-80 jet fighter he piloted yesterday from Montreal to Willow Run in two hours and 10 minutes. Murray brought with him a message to University of Michigan President Alexander G. Ruthven from Mayor Camillien Houde of Montreal. The P-80's flight was a feature of the University's dedication of Willow Run airport.

Crowds in front of a P-80, University of Michigan dedication of Willow Run Airport, May 1947 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Crowds in front of a P-80, University of Michigan dedication of Willow Run Airport, May 1947 image
Year:
1947
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, April 30, 1947
Caption:
Vigil for P-80 Rewarded: Hundreds of spectators at Willow Run yesterday braved frigid winds for more than an hour as they awaited the arrival of an Army P-80 jet fighter from Montreal. Due in at 4 o'clock, the plane finally streaked over the field at 5:05. The same winds that had chilled spectators had slowed the Shooting Star, piloted by Lt. Arthur Murray. Behind the P-80 and dwarfing the little jet plane with its hugeness is an Army B-29, another plane on exhibition at the air show held in connection with the University of Michigan's dedication of the airport.