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* Dr. Margaret ("Mom") Chung is a famed San Francisco doctor. In 1931, seven flyers, turned down by the Navy, asked her help to get them into the Chinese air force, and formed the "Flying Sons of Mom Chung." When unmarried Dr. Chung pointed out that this made them all illegitimate, they changed the organization's name to the "Fair-haired Bastards of Dr. Chung." Among Allied pilots, there are now 659 such bastards.
* Among famed amphibian owners were : Lord Beaverbrook, who had two ; the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick, who brought his plane in for repair, smashed it so badly on landing he had to buy a new one; Motorboat Racer Gar Wood.