At 9:18 a.m. on the morning of Friday, March 27, 1953, 30-year-old furniture salesman Roland Sperry took off from Gardena Airport (which no longer exists) in an airplane that didn’t belong to him. The plane, a 4-seat red Stinson, ID #N876D, had three hours worth of aviation fuel in its tank, and Sperry radioed authoritiesContinue reading “Roland Sperry’s dangerous flight”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
