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DescriptionLouis George Meister (1890-1931) obituary in the Dayton Daily News of Dayton, Ohio on 20 July 1931.jpg	English: Louis George Meister (1890-1931) obituary in the Dayton Daily News of Dayton, Ohio on 20 July 1931
Date	20 July 1931
Source	Dayton Daily News of Dayton, Ohio on 20 July 1931
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Maj. Meister Killed When Plane Falls. Commercial Pilot Was Formerly Stationed in Dayton. (Asociated Press) Detroit, Michigan; July 20, 1931. Maj. Louis G. Meister, 40, of Dearborn, Michigan, test pilot for the Verville Aircraft Corp., and a former army aviator, was killed today when he apparently was unable to bring a new plane he was testing cut of a spin. He leaped with a parachute at n altitude of about 1000 feet but pulled the ripcord too late to save his life. He had maneuvered the plane into a spin as part of the test Company officials were unable to account for his failure to refrain control. Maj. Meister received his first flight training at Chanute Field, Illinois, For 10 years he was chief test pilot at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. The tragic death of Maj. Louis G. Meister caused universal sorrow at Wright Field, Monday. He was widely known in both military and commercial aviation, and in later years, because of his connection with the Verville Aircraft Corp., a frequent visitor here. In 1917, Maj. Meister enlisted in the government aviation service. He took his courses in flying at airfields in Illinois and Texas, continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in July, 1918, was ordered to Wright Field, being transferred a year later to the old McCook Field. As a lieutenant, he served at McCook Field in the capacity of a test pilot He worked with such notables in the early days of government flying as Maj. Rudolph Schroeder, Lieut. Harold R. Harris, Oakley G. Kelly, John A. Macready and Leigh Wade. Maj. Meister was regarded as one of the most seasoned men in the flying game. In 1920 he resigned his army commission and continued test flying at McCook Field as a civilian pilot until 1926. Shortly thereafter, he entered the field of commercial aviation. It was recalled that at the time of the first "air derby," staged at McCook Field in 1923. Maj. Meister set a speed record for triangular courses. It was also recalled Monday by some of the older employees at Wright Field that shortly after Meister became a test pilot he was assigned the task of testing a fast single-place plane. Either the engine developed trouble or some difficulty was caused by improper feeding of the fuel to the power plant The ship became unmanageable and Meister, coming in with a "dead" propeller, set the ship down in a tree to avoid a much more serious crash on the ground. It was feared that the flyer was killed, but when the ambulance crew reached the scene, they found Meister walking around, hunting for his goggles. He had thrown them overboard to avoid the possibility of getting glass in his eyes in the pending crash. Meister was at Wright Field during the recent air maneuvers in the capacity of an official observer for his company. Herbert Heathman, membership secretary of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, was a cousin of the late Maj. Meister.

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