Individuals whose names begin with R:

[Wind tunnel engineer]

"William Rae Jr., Who Turned His Love for Planes into Long Career," Seattle Times, May 29, 1993

[Analyst and journalist]

"The RAF Bombing Campaign in Germany: Ethical and Strategic Dimensions," by Karl F. Rahder. Paper presented to the University of Chicago's Workshop on Military Affairs, January 1989.

[Aeronautical engineer, President of Raisbeck Engineering]

"The Raisbeck King Air 200," January 1, 1995 (press release)

"Local Engineer Soars After a Slow Takeoff," Seattle Times, December 15, 1985

"Jim Raisbeck--Boeing Field's Wing Genius," FACES Seattle Business, October 1979

Biographical note

[Donors to The Museum of Flight's Aviation Learning Center]

Matted photograph of Vin and his wife, Pratibha

[U.S. Senator from West Virginia]

"Jennings Randolph: Friend of Early American Aviation," The Olympian, June 19, 1983

[Pilot, flying school owner]

Folder 1:

Tex Rankin, published by Walt Bohrer, 1966 (booklet)

Business cards and promotional materials for booklet

Pathfinder nomination with supporting articles

Certificate of selection as member of OX5 Aviation Pioneers Hall of Fame, 1976 (also white binder for award)

Pencil sketch of Rankin

Folder 2:

Photographs of Rankin

Snapshots of Rankin, Dorothy Hester, and Frank Hawker

[U.S. Army Air Force fighter pilot]

Pamphlet with cartoons, 1980

Biographical sketch

Typed correspondence

[Russian woman commander of Special Aviation Regiment in WWII, aviatrix]

Photocopy of photograph

[Pilot with the Blue Angels]

Profile of Rasmussen

[Pilot]

Letter from Ray to the Museum of Flight regarding his flight for Honduras Air Force

Photocopy of photograph of the Honduras Air Force, 1936

Captioned photograph, Quiet Birdmen, November 1986

[Chief Engineer, Douglas Aircraft Company and designer of DC-3]

Obituaries, 1999

"Arthur E. Raymond: His Thoughts on Airplane Design, Airliners and Air Travel, 1951-1959," by Mark Levinson (typescript of article)

Photocopy of Raymond’s obituary from unidentified newspaper. Includes handwritten note, March 27, 1999.

[Motor mechanic for Boeing Air Transport and others]

Folder 1:

Hand-written letter from Darrell Razor regarding Homer's repair trucks used on wrecked airplanes in Ireland during World War II, undated

"The First BAT-Men," Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, September 3, 1967

Radio Telephone Operators licenses, 1935, 1938

Letter from Post Office Dept. to Razor regarding job as motor mechanic, 1924

Letter from Post Office Dept. to Razor regarding his contribution as one of our Nation's Air Mail Pioneers, 1968

Folder 2:

Montage of photographs of Field Forces for Boeing Air Transport, April 1928

Photograph of Razor by airplane (Boeing Model 40?), Pasco, 1927

Four (4) snapshots of Razor and others with Boeing Model 40

Four (4) snapshots of Razor with Mobile Unit #4 in England, 1943

Photograph of 8 mechanics in front of United Airlines airplane, Burbank, CA, 1936

[Early U.S. Navy pilot]

"When the NC-4 Flew the Atlantic," American Legion Magazine, December 1967

[Vintage aircraft builder]

"For Fun, Fly a Fokker," Seattle Times, January 2, 1966

"Wally and His Old Planes," Seattle Times, May 17, 1970

[B-17 pilot in World War II]

Folder 1: "Flying the Fortress into Combat," by Boardman C. Reed, AAHS Journal, Spring 1987

Folder 2: Two (2) color photographs of Boardman

[U.S. Air Force and Boeing engineer]

Obituary, December 29, 2012

[Bush pilot, airline executive]

Folder 1:

"Bush Pilot to Airline Chairman," Seattle Times, September 30, 1979

Biographical sketches

Correspondence and list of negatives from Reeve Aleutian Airways regarding Reeve's selection for the Boeing Pathfinders, 1983

Letter from David C. Reeve to Museum of Flight regarding his father, Robert, flying a Boeing 80-A

Christmas card, 1983

"I Should Have Stayed in Bed," by Bob Reeve, The Alaskan magazine, January 1959

"Pathfinder Reeve Honored," The Williwaw, Fall 1983

Photocopies of photographs

"'Glacier Pilot' Robert Reeve Dies in Alaska," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 27, 1980

Folder 2: Photographs of an article regarding early Alaska aviation

[U.S. Army Air Force radio operator]

Folder 1:

Letter to Museum of Flight from Adeline De Vries regarding her cousin, Rehmi

"The Forgotten Hero" by Adeline DeVries (typescript)

Folder 2:

Photograph of Tech. Sgt. Rehmi

Color photographs of his grave and memorial

[Pilot]

"The Eaglet's Roost," The AOPA Pilot, August 1967

[German test pilot, aviatrix]

"Air Medical Intelligence Report of Flugkapitan Hanna Reitsch," by 1st Lt. David B. Vison, Jr., Air Technical Intelligence Review, September 1946

"Aunt Hanna and Her Hari-Kari Boys," no source, undated

"Flugkapitan Hanna Reitsch," Aeroplane Monthly, August 1985

"First Woman with 'Flight Captain's' Rank," no source, May 1976

"The Amazing Hanna Reitsch," Heroines of the Sky, pages 55-74

[U.S. Army gunner]

Service record (photocopy)

Honorable Discharge from The Army of the United States, 1928 (photocopy)

[French engineer of first dirigible]

"L'oeuvre du Colonel Renard," no source, undated (in French) (2 copies)

"The Flying Machines, 1843-1900," Aviation: The Pioneer Years, undated

[Boeing Company vice-president]

"Boeing Names New Everett Chief," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 25, 1993

[President, United Aircraft & Transportation Company and Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company]

Folder 1:

"Aeronautical Body Names Officers," Western Flying, March 1929

"Mr. Rentschler," United Aircraft Corporation's Bee-Hive, Summer 1956

Folder 2:

Photograph of Rentschler

[Pilot]

"Meet Airman Mike Rezich," American Airman, March 1961

[Pilot, Experimental Aircraft Association announcer]

Obituary, Sport Aviation, February 6, 1981

[Lockheed engineer, president of Skunk Works]

"Airplane Designer Ben Rich, 69, Dies in Ventura Hospital," Ventura County Star, January 6, 1995

[Museum of Flight Trustee, airplane restorer]

Folder 1:

Obituaries, 1990

Memorial Celebration announcement

Photocopies of photographs

Folder 2:

Photograph of Richardson looking out of B-17 cockpit

[Alaska Airlines pilot and flight engineer]

"Retirement Rule Couldn't Ground Aviator C.D. 'Bud' Richardson, 70," Seattle Times, August 21, 1989

[U.S. Navy aviator]

"Where Are They Now: Dave Richardson," The Hook, Spring 1998

[U.S. Navy's first engineering test pilot]

"Richardson, Pioneer Naval Aviator, Dies," Naval Aviation News, October 1960

[Alaska Airlines pilot, aviatrix]

"There's No Female Fear of Flying in this Family," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 22, 1982

[Women Airforce Service pilot, aviatrix]

Obituaries

[German World War I ace pilot]

Folder 1:

Biographical sketch

"The Day the Red Baron Died," American Aircraft Modeler, February 1969

"The Legend of Baron Von Richthofen," no source, undated

"Red Baron's Fatal Error," Seattle Times, April 21, 1970

"Manfred von Richthofen," by Ernst Udet, The Aeroplane, March 6, 1935

Folder 2:

Photographs:

Richthofen on Leave at Crefield with Max Voss

Richthofen in front of Fokker Triplane

Richthofen and his father

Lothar von Richthofen being assisted out of his Albatros D-3 after a patrol flight

Captain Oswald Boelcke

Group of German aces on leave

Two (2) group photographs

[U.S. World War I ace pilot and airline executive]

Folder 1:

Biographical sketch

Obituaries, 1973

Newspaper photograph of Rickenbacker with bathing suit model, no source, undated

"Salute to an Ace," Combat Crew, September 1973

Pages from periodical indexes regarding Rickenbacker

"Edward V. Rickenbacker," Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography, pages 398-415

Newspaper photograph of Rickenbacker with SPAD aircraft

Folder 2:

“Rickenbacker Downs Two; the Story Behind This Month’s Cover,” no source, undated

“America’s Greatest Ace; A True Feature,” no source, undated

"Eastern Airlines," Individual Passenger Airlines of America, 1914--, pages 146-150

Biographical sketches from biographical dictionaries

"My 21-Day Ordeal," by Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker, True, February 1958

Biographical sketch

"Profile: Eddie Rickenbacker; A Hat in Every Ring," Car Life, October 1961

Folder 3:

Photographs:

"Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker With His Famous 'Hat-in-the-Ring' Plane, 1918"

Two photographs of Rickenbacker by Mantz's SPAD

Rickenbacker and others christening a DC-3 prior to Mexico City service

Portraits of Rickenbacker

Ten (1) snapshots in paper sleeve of various people and airplanes

[U.S. Navy admiral]

"Unsinkable Hyman Rickover," The Nation, undated

[Pioneer aviator]

"'He Dared to Dream;' The Saga of Merrill K. Riddick," by Dolly Page, 1976

[First licensed Native American female pilot, aviatrix]

Folder 1:

“Filling the Sky with Thunderbirds; The Extraordinary Career of Native American Aviator Mary Riddle,” Montana The Magazine of Western History, Summer 2019

Photocopy of photographs of Riddle with captions

Photocopy of cover of The 99er with photograph of Riddle

"Seattle Indian Girl Shuns Native Life for Airplanes," no source, undated

"Tex Taught the Gals, Too!" (from pamphlet about Tex Rankin?)

Photocopies of photographs of a Flying First Aid Unit

Folder 2:

Photograph of Riddle next to biplane

[U.S. astronaut]

"Tribute: Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space," Time Magazine, July 23, 2012

"First Woman Among Men," New Scientist, July 7, 1983

[First Puerto Rican pilot]

Photocopy of photograph

[Test pilot for Wright brothers]

Biographical sketch

[U.S. pilot, aviatrix]

Biographical sketch from Wikipedia

[Female airline pilot, aviatrix]

"Women With Wings," Parade Magazine, February 3, 1985

[U.S. pilot]

Photograph of Risner climbing into aircraft cockpit

[P-47 test pilot]

Biographical sketch

[Pilot, World War II]

Copy of 30-page typed autobiography covering his induction to the US Army Air Force in 1942, training, and service in the Eighth Air Force through discharge on September 18, 1945.

[Bush pilot]

"'El Huero' Rivera, One of the Last Great Bush Pilots," True, April 1972

[Boeing test pilot]

Folder 1:

Correspondence with Museum of Flight

"Main Event," Boeing Magazine, January 1948

"Robert M. Robbins - Pictorial Resume"

Testimonial by Robbins for book

Photocopies of photographs of Robbins, his co-pilot E.S. Osler, and the Boeing XB-47

Folder 2:

Photographs of Robbins, Osler, and XB-47

[Tuskegee Airman]

"'Black Eagles' of World War II To Gather in Seattle," Seattle Times, July 23, 1984

[Chinese-American historian]

Folders 1 and 2:

Correspondence between Robertson, the Museum of Flight, and others regarding an exhibit on early flight in China and donating her father's papers, 1982-1985

Folder 3:

Color photographs of exhibits and people

[Technical Designer, Boeing B-1B Avionics Program]

Correspondence relating to volunteers at the Museum of Flight, 1983-1986

Articles and correspondence regarding Robles, 1963-1985

Professional profile of Robles

[Glider designer]

"Aviation Pioneers Depart," Sport Aviation, April 6, 1981

[Football player and coach]

"The Crash That Killed Knute Rockne," Air & Space, December 1991

[Air Group commander]

Brief article and illustrations

[Flew first transcontinental airplane flight across the United States]

Folder 1:

"The Incredible Flight," Ford Times, December 1983

"He's Heading West on a Fling & a Prayer," New York Post, September 17, 1986

Photocopy of photograph of Rodgers

Newspaper article from The Independent Star News (Pasadena, California), Sunday November 4, 1956 “First Flight across Continent Ended Here”

Folder 2:

Photograph of Rodgers standing in front of Wright EX (location and date unidentified)

[Vice President, Airbus Industries]

"The Evolution of the Art of Flying." Lecture given by Jean Roeder for The Royal Aeronautical Society, undated

[Member of Flying Tigers]

"Paraplegic's World-Circling Flight a First," Seattle Times, November 13, 1984

[Publisher of Woman Pilot magazine]

"A Dream of Wings," Journal American, June 9, 1994

[German World War II pilot]

"German Pilot Recalls Raids," The Oregonian, February 14, 1982

[U.S. Air Force pilot with 8th Air Force]

Folder 1: Brief biographical details

Folder 1: Two (2) black-and-white photographs of Rogers

[Actor, humorist, American cowboy]

Folder 1:

"America's Great Loss," The Aeroplane, undated

"Will Rogers Is Still Making Us Smile," [Claremore, Oklahoma newspaper?], 1985

Pencil tracing of memorial stone with transcription

"Rogers-Post Article Sends Readers to Their Scrapbooks," Seattle Times, January 18, 1970

"Floats on Post-Rogers Lockheed," Journal, American Aviation Historical Society, Spring 1992

"Flight Victims Near Homeland," Morning Oregonian, August 19, 1935

Folder 2:

Two (2) photocopies of photographs of Rogers

Photograph of Rogers with United Air Lines stewardess next to airplane

NOTE: See also folders for Wiley Post

[Aeronautical engineer]

Brief biographical sketch

[U.S pilot, World War II]

"Ward Roney, 'County Courthouse Cowboy,' Dies," Seattle Times, October 3, 1984

[U. S. president]

Folder 1: Biographical sketch

Folder 2:

Numerous photographs of Roosevelt at various functions

Photograph of Roosevelt after Casablanca Conference at Roberts Field, Accra, Africa, 1944

Photograph of Roosevelt with Admiral Leahy aboard Boeing Clipper

[U. S. pilot, World War I]

"Quentin Roosevelt's Last Flight," no source, undated

“Quentin Roosevelt’s Last Flight. The Story Behind This Month’s Cover.” No source, undated

"Here Lies Quentin Roosevelt; The Search for a Field in France," Air & Space, April/May 1993

[U. S. president]

Folder 1:

Photograph of Roosevelt seated in airplane before flight with pilot Archie Hoxsey in 1910, Saturday Evening Post, October 3, 1953

Folder 2:

Numerous photographs of Roosevelt and others in various periods in his life

Photograph of article in the New York Journal, "Destruction of the War Ship Maine Was the Work of An Enemy," February 17, 1898

[U.S. Navy ace pilot, World War II]

"Ralph Rosen, WW2 Flying Ace, Lawmaker, Dies at 90," no source, May 14, 2010

[Jet engineer]

Folder 1:

Letter to Museum of Flight regarding Ross, 1992

Obituaries, 1989

"Charles Ross New Chief Inspector," Midnight Sun, January 1958

"Fondy, Ross, Fowler to Attend Rolls Royce School in England," Midnight Sun, March 1958

"FAA Safety Award to Wien," Midnight Sun, October-November 1963

Folder 2: Two (2) black-and-white photographs of Ross, 1989

[Stunt pilot]

Publicity photographs (one autographed to the Museum of Flight)

Photograph negative

[Aerial acrobat, aviatrix]

"Daredevil Derbies," The Atlanta Journal, undated

[Boeing engineer]

Pathfinder Awards Program, 2009

[Airline enthusiast]

"Plans for Air Line to Los Angeles Speeded; Planes Will Make Trip in Four Hours," no source, undated

Advertisement for Masonic Club luncheon lecture by Ruckstell titled "Airways and Airplane Travel in Europe," 1925

[Pioneer pilot]

"Heads New Flying School," The Exhaust, May 18, 1930

Correspondence regarding Ruddach's interest in serving in the war, 1942

"Boise Airline Service Starts," Spokane Chronicle, April 27, 1931

Photocopies of photographs of people and airplane

"Harborites Given Airlines Courtesy Trip Over Peninsula," Aberdeen Daily World, August 4, 1947

"Pioneer Pilot," The Daily World, September 29, 1984

[Alaska aviation historian]

"Alaska's Aviation History Is His Forte," Great Lander Shopping News, March 23, 1983

"The Armchair Aviator," Air Alaska, March 1983

[Pan American World Airways pilot]

Obituaries, 1992

[Vice President of Curtiss Wright Corporation]

"F.H. Russell Quits Curtiss Wright," New York Times, January 1, 1931

[U.S. Navy aviator, Commander in Chief of NATO Forces]

Biographical sketch, 1971

"Kamikazes," The American Heritage, History of Flight, 1962

"Admiral James S. Russell: A Man Who Loves the Sea," Marine Digest, April 11, 1987

Photocopies of photographs of Russell and airplanes

[Chief, Boeing wind tunnel]

"Boeing Has New Wind Tunnel," Seattle Times, July 7, 1960

"Lakeside Boy Wins Prize in Plane Designs," no source, undated

"Boys Win Air Trips With Model Planes," The Wenatchee Daily World, undated

[Pioneer aviator]

Typed interview with Russell, 1977 (photocopy)

Typed autobiography, 1982 (photocopy)

"The Day the Mail Took to the Air," San Francisco Chronicle, September 8, 1980

Correspondence between Frances M. Russell and the Museum of Flight regarding donation of materials

[Airplane manufacturers, innovative aviators]

Brief articles, 1994

"The American Hero: Not an Endangered Species," Insight magazine, September 8, 1986

"Around the World in 11 Days," Newsweek, September 22, 1986

Biographical sketch about Burt Rutan

"World Quest: First Non-Stop Transglobal Balloon Flight," Issue Two, September 1998 (Project Hot Sheet)

"Burt Rutan," Aerospace International, September 2004

[Museum of Flight archivist]

Folder 1:

Business cards

"Meet Oscar--the Photo Lab's 'Glass McCarthy,'" Boeing News, June 7, 1946

Certificate of Appreciation from the Museum of Flight, 1986

Photocopies of photographs

Folder 2:

Photograph of Rutledge

Boeing Photo Unit, 1949

[Pilot]

Color photographs of Ryan in flight suit

[Aviation pioneer, founder of Ryan Aeronautical Company]

Folder 1:

Obituaries, 1982

Advertisement for Ryan Aeronautical Company, Aero Digest, October 1941

Biographical sketch

Folder 2:

Photographs of Ryan next to airplanes, one of which is the Spririt of St. Louis