Omniscriptum Tubal Claude Ryan

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tubal Claude Ryan (January 3, 1898 - September 11, 1982) was an Irish-American aviator born in Parsons, Kansas. Ryan was best known for founding some airlines and four airplane factories.His first employee was William Hawley Bowlus, who had been the mechanic at the first flying school Ryan attended. One of his students was a wealthy young stock broker and real-estate developer named Benjamin Franklin Mahoney. Ryan sold half of the Ryan Flying Company to B. F. Mahoney on April 25, 1925. With Mahoney's funding, they bought Donald Douglas's first complete airplane, "The Cloudster," which Douglas had build to attempt the first non-stop transcontinental flight. A broken engine part grounded that flight in El Paso, Texas and by the time they had made the necessary repairs, a pair of military pilots accomplished the feat in a Fokker.