Martin Digital History

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  • Longtime Martin County resident, pilot, and widely known comic strip creator, Zack Mosley sits in the cockpit of a plane. Mosely created the "The Adventures of Smilin' Jack" newspaper comic which ran from 1933 through 1973.
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  • Longtime Martin County resident, pilot, and comic strip creator, Zack Mosley lays down in the cockpit of a plane.
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  • Zack Mosley in flight suit with helmet and breathing mask. Zack Mosley created "The Adventures of Smilin' Jack" comic strip. Poor copy.
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  • Comic strip creator, Zack Mosley (on right) sits at a desk with an unidentified man in uniform in front of newspaper pages containing "The Adventures of Smilin' Jack" comic. Poor copy.
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  • Zack Mosley in Civil Air Patrol, US Air Force (USAF) Auxiliary uniform.
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  • Group of men pose in front of a Midet Air Lines plane. Article in the Stuart News (7 April 1955) explains that 14 prominent local residents boarded a chartered Midet Air Lines passenger plane at Witham Field to confer with Governor LeRoy Collins regarding impediments to building a bridge from Stuart to Hutchinson Island. Individuals in the photo are Willard M. Kiplinger, Andrew D. Burkey, Robert T. Bair, Theodore Houk, Lester M. Combs, Dan W. Fagen, C.B. Arbogast, Ralph W. Hartman Jr., Arthur M. Dehon, O.C. Smith, Evans Crary, Harry F. Dyer, Ernest Tyner, and Ed M. Higbee.

    Incorporated in 1938 in New York State as Midet Aviation, Midet provided service between Long Island and Manhattan and West Palm Beach and the Bahamas. In the early 1950s, Midet was headquartered in West Palm Beach and provided service between West Palm/Miami and the Bahamas. Midet merged into Mackey Air Lines in 1956.
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  • Pilot stands next to a crop duster plane with the name "Big Tim" painted on its side. Witham Field in the background. Pilot identified as Vince Brennan.
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  • Published in the Stuart News (28 Aug 1958) with the following caption: "Grumman Visitors. This group of 32 Navy fliers and Grumman Aircraft & Engineering Corp. personnel with planes in background was pictured at Witham Field recently. Commander Wilcox Howell, U.S.N., seventh from left, Commanding Officer of Anti-Submarine Squadron US-30, visited the local airport Aug. 12 through Aug. 14. The purpose of the Navy visit was to receive indoctrination from Grumman personnel on the maintenance of the electronics systems in their aircraft."
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  • Group of men unload boxes of cut flowers from a cargo plane. Writing on the side of the plane includes "Riddle Aviation Co. Air Cargo New York Miami Puerto Rico."
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  • Small crowd gathered near a cargo plane and trucks filled with boxes of cut flowers at Witham Airfield.
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