Pancho Barnes
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Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes (July 22, 1901 – March 30, 1975) was a pioneer aviator and a founder of the first movie stunt pilots' union.
In 1930, she broke Amelia Earhart's air speed record.
Barnes raced in the Women's Air Derby and was a member of the Ninety-Nines.
In later years, she was known as the owner of the Happy Bottom Riding Club, a bar and restaurant in the Mojave Desert, Southern California, catering to the legendary test pilots and aviators who worked nearby.
Early years
She was born as Florence Leontine Lowe on July 22, 1901, to Thaddeus Lowe II (1870–1955) and his first wife, Florence May Dobbins, in Pasadena, California. She was born to a wealthy family, growing up in a huge mansion in San Marino, California. During her formative years, she attended the area's finest private schools. Her father, an avid sportsman, encouraged her to appreciate the great outdoors, and Florence became an accomplished equestrian. Her grandfather was Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, who had pioneered American aviation with the establishment of the nation's first military air unit, the Army of the Potomac's balloon corps during the American Civil War. He took his granddaughter to an air show when she was 10 years old.
In 1919, Florence married Reverend C. Rankin Barnes of South Pasadena, California, and they had a son, William E. Barnes. Her mother died in 1924.
Aviation career
She began using the term "Pancho" after being spent four months in Mexico, becoming caught up with revolutionaries and escaping the notice of authorities disguised as a man. Barnes returned to San Marino, California, with an inheritance bequeathed to her on her parents' death. She inspired her cousin Dean Banks to fly in 1928 and told her cousin, Ben Catlin, a World War I veteran, of her desire on the same day. After six hours of formal instruction, she went solo.
Barnes held an ad-hoc barnstorming show and competed in air races. Despite a crash in the 1929 Women's Air Derby, she returned in 1930 under Union Oil Company sponsorship to win the event – and beat Amelia Earhart's world women's record of 315.74 km/h). In a Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship, Barnes tied for the first time.
Barnes left Union Oil after her time as a stunt pilot for films in Hollywood. She founded the Associated Motion Picture Pilots, a group of film industry stunt fliers that promoted flying health and uniformly pay for aerial stunt work in 1931. Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930), she appeared in numerous air-adventure films of the 1930s, including Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930).
Barnes had a long history in Hollywood. George Hurrell (1904-1972), then eking out a life as a painter and photographer in Laguna Beach, California, would later become MGM Studios' portrait department boss. Barnes is credited with assisting Hurrell in his Hollywood debut after he obtained the photograph she was supposed to use on her pilot's license, introducing him to her Hollywood acquaintances. Hurrell became Hollywood's most in-demand photographer in a short period of time.
Barnes lost the majority of her money in the Great Depression. She had only her apartment in Hollywood left by 1935. She sold it in March 1935, purchased 180 acres (73 ha) of land in the Mojave Desert, near the Rogers dry lake bed and the nascent Muroc Field, then called March Field because it was an adjunct property of March Army Air Base at the time.