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Colorado</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Portal_of_Folded_Wings_Shrine_to_Aviation" class="mw-redirect" title="Portal of Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation">Portal of Folded Wings</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">American</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Throop_Polytechnic_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Throop Polytechnic Institute">Throop Polytechnic Institute</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Aviator" class="mw-redirect" title="Aviator">Aviator</a>, <a href="/wiki/Test_pilot" title="Test pilot">Test pilot</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Helen Belmont Pearsoll</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1921)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Bertina Dolores Acosta (1918–1970) Saranto</li> <li>Gloria Consuelo Acosta (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1919)</li> <li>Bertrand Blanchard Acosta, Jr. (1922–1993)</li> <li>Allyn Lee Acosta (1924–1997)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Miguel Aphonse Ferdinand Acosta <br /> Martha Blanche Reilly-Snook</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Bertrand Blanchard Acosta</b> (January 1, 1895 – September 1, 1954) was a record-setting aviator and <a href="/wiki/Test_pilot" title="Test pilot">test pilot</a>. He and <a href="/wiki/Clarence_D._Chamberlin" class="mw-redirect" title="Clarence D. Chamberlin">Clarence D. Chamberlin</a> set an endurance record of 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds in the air. He later flew in the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Yankee_Squadron" title="Yankee Squadron">Yankee Squadron</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was known as the "bad boy of the air". He received numerous fines and suspensions for flying stunts such as flying under bridges or flying too close to buildings.<sup id="cite_ref-died_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-died-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bert_Acosta&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Acosta was born in <a href="/wiki/San_Diego,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Diego, California">San Diego, California</a>, to Miguel Aphonse Ferdinand Acosta and Martha Blanche Reilly-Snook.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended the <a href="/wiki/Throop_Polytechnic_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Throop Polytechnic Institute">Throop Polytechnic Institute</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pasadena,_California" title="Pasadena, California">Pasadena, California</a>, from 1912 to 1914.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He taught himself to fly in August 1910 and built experimental airplanes up until 1912 when he began work for <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Curtiss" title="Glenn Curtiss">Glenn Curtiss</a> as an apprentice on a <a href="/wiki/Seaplane" title="Seaplane">hydroplane</a> project. In 1915 he worked as a flying instructor. He went to Canada and worked as an instructor for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Flying_Corps" title="Royal Flying Corps">Royal Flying Corps</a> and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Naval_Air_Service" title="Royal Naval Air Service">Royal Naval Air Service</a> in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a>. In 1917 he was appointed chief instructor, <a href="/wiki/Aviation_Section,_U.S._Signal_Corps" title="Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps">Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps</a> at Hazelhurst Field, <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a> where he test flew early open-cockpit aircraft such as the <a href="/wiki/Continental_KB-1" title="Continental KB-1">Continental KB-1</a> over New York in below freezing conditions.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Acosta married Mary Louise Brumley (1886–1962) in 1918 but they divorced in 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He won The Pulitzer Trophy Race in 1921 and the same year set an <a href="/wiki/Airspeed_record" class="mw-redirect" title="Airspeed record">airspeed record</a> of 176.9 miles an hour.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1922 he served as a test pilot for the <a href="/wiki/Stout_Batwing_Limousine" title="Stout Batwing Limousine">Stout Batwing Limousine</a>, Stout's forerunner to the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Trimotor" title="Ford Trimotor">Ford Trimotor</a>. In 1925 he was a lieutenant in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Navy">U.S. Navy</a> and was living at 1 Winslow Court in <a href="/wiki/Naugatuck,_Connecticut" title="Naugatuck, Connecticut">Naugatuck, Connecticut</a>. He married Helen Belmont Pearsoll, on August 3, 1921. They eventually separated but never divorced. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Endurance_record">Endurance record</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bert_Acosta&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Endurance record"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In April 1927, he and <a href="/wiki/Clarence_D._Chamberlin" class="mw-redirect" title="Clarence D. Chamberlin">Clarence D. Chamberlin</a> set an endurance record of 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds in the air. <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine reported on April 25, 1927: </p> <blockquote> <p>Engineer <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_M._Bellanca" class="mw-redirect" title="Giuseppe M. Bellanca">Giuseppe M. Bellanca</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Aircraft_Corporation" title="Columbia Aircraft Corporation">Columbia Aircraft Corporation</a> had conditioned an <a href="/wiki/Wright-Bellanca_WB-2_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia">elderly yellow-winged monoplane</a> with one Wright motor, and scouted around for pilots. Lieut. Leigh Wade, round-the-world flyer, declined the invitation, saying Mr. Bellanca's plans were too stunt-like, not scientific. Shrugging, Mr. Bellanca engaged Pilots <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Duncan_Chamberlin" class="mw-redirect" title="Clarence Duncan Chamberlin">Clarence Duncan Chamberlin</a> and burly Bert Acosta, onetime auto speedster, to test his ship's endurance. Up they put from <a href="/wiki/Mitchel_Field,_Long_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Mitchel Field, Long Island">Mitchel Field, Long Island</a>, with 385 gallons of ethylated (high power) gasoline. All day they droned back and forth over suburbia, circled the <a href="/wiki/Woolworth_Building" title="Woolworth Building">Woolworth Building</a>, hovered over <a href="/wiki/Hadley_Field,_New_Jersey" class="mw-redirect" title="Hadley Field, New Jersey">Hadley Field, New Jersey</a>, swung back to drop notes on <a href="/wiki/Mitchel_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Mitchel Field">Mitchel Field</a>. All that starry night they wandered slowly around the sky, and all the next day, and through the next night, a muggy, cloudy one. Newsgatherers flew up alongside to shout unintelligible things through megaphones. Messrs. Acosta and Chamberlain were looking tired and oil-blobbed. They swallowed soup and sandwiches, caught catnaps on the mattressed fuel tank, while on and on they droned, almost lazily (about 80 m.p.h.) for they were cruising against time. Not for 51 hours, 11 minutes, 25 seconds, did they coast to earth, having broken the U.S. and world's records for protracted flight. In the same time, conditions favoring, they could have flown from <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> to <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>. They had covered 4,100 miles. To Paris it is 3,600 miles from Manhattan. Jubilant, Engineer Bellanca's employers offered competitors a three-hour headstart in the race to Paris. The <a href="/wiki/Bellanca" class="mw-redirect" title="Bellanca">Bellanca</a> monoplane's normal cruising speed is 110 m.p.h. She would require only some 35 hours to reach Paris—if she could stay up that long again.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Orteig_Prize_attempt">Orteig Prize attempt</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bert_Acosta&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Orteig Prize attempt"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Aircraft_Corp" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia Aircraft Corp">Columbia Aircraft Corp</a> president <a href="/wiki/Charles_Levine" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Levine">Charles Levine</a> planned on using <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Chamberlin" title="Clarence Chamberlin">Clarence Chamberlin</a> or Bert Acosta as pilot with <a href="/wiki/Lloyd_W._Bertaud" title="Lloyd W. Bertaud">Lloyd W. Bertaud</a> as copilot on their attempt at the <a href="/wiki/Orteig_prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Orteig prize">Orteig prize</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Wright-Bellanca_WB-2_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia">Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia</a>. Levine bumped Bertaud from the copilot position, prompting an injunction preventing any Orteig record flight. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh" title="Charles Lindbergh">Charles Lindbergh</a> arrived on May 5, 1927. While Chamberlin waited for the injunction to be lifted, his other competition, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Evelyn_Byrd" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Evelyn Byrd">Admiral Byrd's</a> team was repairing his Fokker C-2 Trimotor, the "<a href="/wiki/America_(C-2)" class="mw-redirect" title="America (C-2)">America</a>" after a practice run crash. On May 20–21, 1927, Lindbergh left <a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Field,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Roosevelt Field, New York">Roosevelt Field</a> and crossing the Atlantic, while leaving the 'Columbia' and 'Atlantic' behind at the adjacent <a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Field_(airport)" title="Roosevelt Field (airport)">Curtiss Field</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transatlantic_flight">Transatlantic flight</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bert_Acosta&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Transatlantic flight"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On June 29, 1927, thirty-three days after Charles Lindbergh's record setting <a href="/wiki/Transatlantic_flight" title="Transatlantic flight">transatlantic flight</a>, Acosta flew from <a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Field,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Roosevelt Field, New York">Roosevelt Field</a> on Long Island to France with Commander <a href="/wiki/Richard_E._Byrd" title="Richard E. Byrd">Richard E. Byrd</a>, Lieutenant <a href="/wiki/George_O._Noville" class="mw-redirect" title="George O. Noville">George O. Noville</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bernt_Balchen" title="Bernt Balchen">Bernt Balchen</a> aboard the <i><a href="/wiki/America_(C-2)" class="mw-redirect" title="America (C-2)">America</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A short film of Acosta, Byrd, George Noville, and <a href="/wiki/Grover_Whalen" title="Grover Whalen">Grover Whalen</a> giving a farewell speech was filmed in the <a href="/wiki/Phonofilm" title="Phonofilm">Phonofilm</a> sound-on-film process on June 29 and released as <i>America's Flyers</i>. During the flight, the (perhaps apocryphal) story was that Byrd had to hit Acosta over the head with a fire extinguisher or a flashlight when he got out of control from drinking during their flight.<sup id="cite_ref-natural_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-natural-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bad_boy_persona">Bad boy persona</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bert_Acosta&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Bad boy persona"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Joseph_Terleph_Congratulates_Test_Pilot_Burt_Acosta_On_a_Sucess0002.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Joseph_Terleph_Congratulates_Test_Pilot_Burt_Acosta_On_a_Sucess0002.jpg/220px-Joseph_Terleph_Congratulates_Test_Pilot_Burt_Acosta_On_a_Sucess0002.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Joseph_Terleph_Congratulates_Test_Pilot_Burt_Acosta_On_a_Sucess0002.jpg/330px-Joseph_Terleph_Congratulates_Test_Pilot_Burt_Acosta_On_a_Sucess0002.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Joseph_Terleph_Congratulates_Test_Pilot_Burt_Acosta_On_a_Sucess0002.jpg/440px-Joseph_Terleph_Congratulates_Test_Pilot_Burt_Acosta_On_a_Sucess0002.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6054" data-file-height="3684" /></a><figcaption>Acosta (left) with Joseph Terleph in c. 1931 following the successful first flight of the <a href="/wiki/Terle_Sportplane" title="Terle Sportplane">Terle Sportplane</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1928 <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a> suspended his pilot license for trying to fly under the Whittemore Memorial Bridge in <a href="/wiki/Naugatuck" class="mw-redirect" title="Naugatuck">Naugatuck</a>. According to local Naugatuck tradition, the wing span of his aircraft was much longer than the width of the center arch of the bridge. The flight may have been a publicity stunt, as there was an advertisement for Splitdorf Spark Plugs on the fuselage. </p><p>In 1929 he was fined $500 for low flying and stunting. When he failed to pay the fine, the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Commerce" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Commerce">Department of Commerce</a> revoked his pilot license. He was arrested by Connecticut State troopers in 1930 for flying without a license.<sup id="cite_ref-natural_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-natural-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A new <a href="/wiki/Terle_Sportplane" title="Terle Sportplane">Terle Sportplane</a> was being tested at <a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Roosevelt Field">Roosevelt Field</a> in New York in 1931, but the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Aeronautics_Administration_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil Aeronautics Administration (United States)">CAA</a> did not register it as a licensed aircraft. The aircraft was later test flown by Acosta, who found it perfect for his use since he was currently grounded from flying licensed aircraft from a previous infraction. After performing aerobatics with the aircraft to a large crowd, Acosta and designer Joseph Terle planned to produce the aircraft together as the "Acosterle Wild Cet". The aircraft was test flown for two years, but could not meet certification requirements.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1931 he planned to fly from New York to <a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a> with Captain Lisandro Garay of the Honduran Air Force in a <a href="/wiki/Bellanca_CH-300_Pacemaker" title="Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker">Bellanca CH-300</a>. Acosta disappeared before a fully loaded "test flight" with 360 gallons of gasoline. Instead, Garay departed from <a href="/wiki/Floyd_Bennett_Field" title="Floyd Bennett Field">Floyd Bennett Field</a> without him, making it as far as Cape Hatteras, NC, where due to a storm he was forced to land at sea.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Spanish_Civil_War">Spanish Civil War</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bert_Acosta&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Spanish Civil War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1936 Acosta was head of the <a href="/wiki/Yankee_Squadron" title="Yankee Squadron">Yankee Squadron</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a> with <a href="/wiki/Eddie_August_Schneider" title="Eddie August Schneider">Eddie August Schneider</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frederic_Ives_Lord" title="Frederic Ives Lord">Frederic Ives Lord</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Time</i> magazine wrote on December 21, 1936: </p> <blockquote> <p>Hilariously celebrating in the ship's bar of the Normandie with their first advance pay checks from Spain's Radical Government, six able U.S. aviators were en route last week for Madrid to join Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, in doing battle against Generalísimo <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Franco" title="Francisco Franco">Francisco Franco</a>'s White planes. Payment for their services: $1,500 a month plus $1,000 for each White plane brought down.<sup id="cite_ref-normandie_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-normandie-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p><i>Time</i> magazine wrote on January 4, 1937, although the attack was later determined to be propaganda: </p> <blockquote> <p>On Christmas Eve the "<a href="/wiki/Yankee_Squadron" title="Yankee Squadron">Yankee Squadron</a>" of famed U.S. aviators headed by Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, at the last minute abandoned plans for a whoopee party with their wives at Biarritz, swank French resort across the Spanish frontier. They decided that they would rather raid Burgos, Generalísimo Franco's headquarters. The hundreds of incendiary bombs that they dropped on White hangars and munition dumps they jokingly described as "Messages of Christmas Cheer for the boys in Burgos."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bert_Acosta&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In December 1951 Acosta collapsed in a New York City bar and was hospitalized with <a href="/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a>. He died at the Jewish Consumptive's Relief Society sanatorium in <a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a> in 1954.<sup id="cite_ref-died_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-died-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was 59. Acosta was buried at the <a href="/wiki/Portal_of_the_Folded_Wings_Shrine_to_Aviation" title="Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation">Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation</a> at <a href="/wiki/Valhalla_Memorial_Park_Cemetery" title="Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery">Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/North_Hollywood,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="North Hollywood, California">North Hollywood, California</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bert_Acosta&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2014, Acosta was posthumously inducted into the <a href="/wiki/National_Aviation_Hall_of_Fame" title="National Aviation Hall of Fame">National Aviation Hall of Fame</a>, along with pilot and astronaut <a href="/wiki/James_McDivitt" title="James McDivitt">James McDivitt</a>, the first female airline captain <a href="/wiki/Emily_Howell_Warner" title="Emily Howell Warner">Emily Warner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cirrus_Aircraft" title="Cirrus Aircraft">Cirrus</a> founders and designers <a href="/wiki/Klapmeier_brothers" title="Klapmeier brothers">Dale and Alan Klapmeier</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Homebuilt_aircraft" title="Homebuilt aircraft">homebuilt aircraft</a> racer and engineer <a href="/wiki/Steve_Wittman" title="Steve Wittman">Steve Wittman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1936/11/21/archives/4-americans-in-spain-to-fly-for-madrid-acosta-and-three-mates-reach.html">"4 Americans in Spain to Fly for Madrid. Acosta and Three Mates Reach Valencia to Take Course in Military Aviation"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. November 21, 1936<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-09-25</span></span>. <q>Bert Acosta, one of this country's leading racing pilots, and four other fliers from fields in the Newark district have arrived at <a href="/wiki/Valencia,_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Valencia, Spain">Valencia, Spain</a>, where they will go through a hurried course in military flying before taking the air against the Rebels, it was revealed here yesterday.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=4+Americans+in+Spain+to+Fly+for+Madrid.+Acosta+and+Three+Mates+Reach+Valencia+to+Take+Course+in+Military+Aviation.&rft.date=1936-11-21&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1936%2F11%2F21%2Farchives%2F4-americans-in-spain-to-fly-for-madrid-acosta-and-three-mates-reach.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-died-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-died_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-died_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101116202745/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,820213,00.html">"Died"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a>. September 13, 1954. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,820213,00.html">the original</a> on November 16, 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-09-25</span></span>. <q>Bert Acosta, 59, pilot of the historic multi-engined flight across the Atlantic (1927) with Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Bernt Balchen; of <a href="/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a>; in Denver. At 14 (in 1910), Acosta built and flew his own plane, went on to establish a world's speed record (176.7 m.p.h.) at 26 and endurance record (51 hr. 11 min. 25 sec.) at 32; in later life, despite hard times and family problems, wound up with a legendary reputation for skillful piloting and artful risk-taking (e.g., he once buzzed Manhattan's Metropolitan Life tower to see what time it was).</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Died.&rft.date=1954-09-13&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C820213%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bertrand Blanchard Acosta's mother had a half-brother with the surname of Snook.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLaunius2000" class="citation web cs1">Launius, Roger D. (2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.2000005">"Acosta, Bertrand Blanchard"</a>. <i>American National Biography</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fanb%2F9780198606697.article.2000005">10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.2000005</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 22,</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=American+National+Biography&rft.atitle=Acosta%2C+Bertrand+Blanchard&rft.date=2000&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fanb%2F9780198606697.article.2000005&rft.aulast=Launius&rft.aufirst=Roger+D.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1093%2Fanb%2F9780198606697.article.2000005&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161013133259/http://earlyaviators.com/eacosta.htm">"Bertrand Blanchard Acosta"</a>. Early Aviators. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.earlyaviators.com/eacosta.htm">the original</a> on 2016-10-13<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-09-25</span></span>. <q>Taught self to fly, August 1910; built experimental planes and continued personal research until 1912; joined Glenn H. Curtiss as apprentice assisting in developing land and hydroplanes; instructed in flying; 1915. became instructor of R.F.C. and R.N.A.S. at Toronto, Canada ...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Bertrand+Blanchard+Acosta&rft.pub=Early+Aviators&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.earlyaviators.com%2Feacosta.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">"Continental Pusher Biplane". <i>Aviation</i>: 35. 1 February 1918.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Aviation&rft.atitle=Continental+Pusher+Biplane&rft.pages=35&rft.date=1918-02-01&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mary Louise Brumley (1886–1962) born on July 27, 1886 in Norfolk Virginia, and she was a descendant of Henry Clay. She died in 1962. Ida Clay Baker was her mother. She married John Earl Pringell after the divorce from Bert.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060503100427/http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/apjinternational/apj-s/2trimes99/ashcroft.htm">"La Callada Voz de los Precursores Hispanoamericanos"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/apjinternational/apj-s/2trimes99/ashcroft.htm">the original</a> on 2006-05-03<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2006-12-14</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=La+Callada+Voz+de+los+Precursores+Hispanoamericanos&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.airpower.maxwell.af.mil%2Fapjinternational%2Fapj-s%2F2trimes99%2Fashcroft.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125023258/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,730448,00.html">"Paris Preliminaries"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a>. April 25, 1927. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,730448,00.html">the original</a> on November 25, 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-09-25</span></span>. <q>Engineer <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_M._Bellanca" class="mw-redirect" title="Giuseppe M. Bellanca">Giuseppe M. Bellanca</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Aircraft_Corporation" title="Columbia Aircraft Corporation">Columbia Aircraft Corporation</a> had conditioned an elderly yellow-winged monoplane with one Wright motor, and scouted around for pilots. Lieut. Leigh Wade, round-the-world flyer, declined the invitation, saying Mr. Bellanca's plans were too stunt-like, not scientific.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Paris+Preliminaries&rft.date=1927-04-25&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C730448%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101121085815/http://centennialofflight.gov/essay/GENERAL_AVIATION/bellanca/GA1.htm">"Bellanca Aircraft"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/GENERAL_AVIATION/bellanca/GA1.htm">the original</a> on 21 November 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 November</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Bellanca+Aircraft&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.centennialofflight.gov%2Fessay%2FGENERAL_AVIATION%2Fbellanca%2FGA1.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/America-NX206.htm">"The Trans-Atlantic Flight of the 'America'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. Check-Six<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2008-11-11</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Trans-Atlantic+Flight+of+the+%27America%27&rft.pub=Check-Six&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.check-six.com%2FCrash_Sites%2FAmerica-NX206.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-natural-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-natural_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-natural_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111222071935/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883487,00.html">"Pilot's Pilot"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a>. June 10, 1935. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883487,00.html">the original</a> on December 22, 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-09-25</span></span>. <q>Long before anyone ever heard of Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Post or Earhart, one of aviation's big names was Bert Acosta. Famed as a 'natural' among pilots, he probably had a greater talent for flying than any man before or since. But like many another early barnstormer and stunter, he took to the fleshpots on earth as an offset to his work in the air. His life, consequently, became a rowdy romance in which brawls, jails and domestic entanglements were due to play a large part.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Pilot%27s+Pilot&rft.date=1935-06-10&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C883487%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1930/09/19/archives/bert-acosta-freed-in-connecticut-case-twoyearold-charge-for-stunt.html">"Bert Acosta Freed In Connecticut Case. Two-Year-Old Charge For Stunt Flying At Naugatuck Dropped By Waterbury Prosecutor. Pilot Promises To Behave His Air Record Wins Leniency, But He Faces Federal Inquiry On Flight Without License"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. September 19, 1930<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-09-25</span></span>. <q><a href="/wiki/Waterbury,_Connecticut" title="Waterbury, Connecticut">Waterbury, Connecticut</a>; September 18, 1930; (<a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a>). Bert Acosta, transatlantic flier, who was arrested in Wilton last night after he had landed his plane in a meadow, received a nolle today in ...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Bert+Acosta+Freed+In+Connecticut+Case.+Two-Year-Old+Charge+For+Stunt+Flying+At+Naugatuck+Dropped+By+Waterbury+Prosecutor.+Pilot+Promises+To+Behave+His+Air+Record+Wins+Leniency%2C+But+He+Faces+Federal+Inquiry+On+Flight+Without+License.&rft.date=1930-09-19&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1930%2F09%2F19%2Farchives%2Fbert-acosta-freed-in-connecticut-case-twoyearold-charge-for-stunt.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1"><i>Experimenter</i>. May 1957.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Experimenter&rft.date=1957-05&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_journal" title="Template:Cite journal">cite journal</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_untitled_periodical" title="Category:CS1 maint: untitled periodical">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081215031202/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742123,00.html">"Biggests"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a>. August 17, 1931. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742123,00.html">the original</a> on December 15, 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-09-25</span></span>. <q>Captain Lisandro Garay of the Honduran Air Force last week at Floyd Bennett Field loaded a Bellanca monoplane with 360 gallons [of] gasoline and Bert Acosta 'to make a test flight' from New York to Honduras. Acosta sneaked away; Captain Garay took off, headed for <a href="/wiki/Tegucigalpa" title="Tegucigalpa">Tegucigalpa</a>, reprimand, glory, or death.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Biggests&rft.date=1931-08-17&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C742123%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWesley2018" class="citation web cs1">Wesley (2018-03-03). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191013170145/http://bellancaautographedphoto.com/remembering-the-first-honduran-aviator-captain-lisandro-garay/">"Remembering the first Honduran aviator Captain Lisandro Garay"</a>. <i>Bellanca Autographed Photo</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bellancaautographedphoto.com/remembering-the-first-honduran-aviator-captain-lisandro-garay/">the original</a> on 2019-10-13<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-10-13</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Bellanca+Autographed+Photo&rft.atitle=Remembering+the+first+Honduran+aviator+Captain+Lisandro+Garay.&rft.date=2018-03-03&rft.au=Wesley&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbellancaautographedphoto.com%2Fremembering-the-first-honduran-aviator-captain-lisandro-garay%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bertrand Blanchard Acosta had been living at 46 West 17th Street in New York City before leaving for Spain.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"3 U.S. Airmen Here to Explain Aid to Loyalists; Acosta, Berry, Schneider Fly to Capital With Their Attorney". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>. January 20, 1937.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post&rft.atitle=3+U.S.+Airmen+Here+to+Explain+Aid+to+Loyalists%3B+Acosta%2C+Berry%2C+Schneider+Fly+to+Capital+With+Their+Attorney&rft.date=1937-01-20&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-normandie-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-normandie_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081215084156/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,757204,00.html">"Pilots, Death, Plebiscite"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a>. December 21, 1936. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,757204,00.html">the original</a> on December 15, 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-08-21</span></span>. <q>Hilariously celebrating in the ship's bar of the Normandie with their first advance pay checks from Spain's Radical Government, six able U.S. aviators were en route last week for Madrid to join Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, in doing battle against Generalísimo <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Franco" title="Francisco Franco">Francisco Franco</a>'s White planes. Payment for their services: $1,500 a month plus $1,000 for each White plane brought down.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Pilots%2C+Death%2C+Plebiscite&rft.date=1936-12-21&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C757204%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091215031257/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,762332-2,00.html">"Uneasy Christmas"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a>. January 4, 1937. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,762332-2,00.html">the original</a> on December 15, 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-09-25</span></span>. <q>On Christmas Eve the "Yankee Squadron" of famed U. S. aviators headed by Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, at the last minute abandoned plans for a whoopee party with their wives at Biarritz, swank French resort across the Spanish frontier. They decided that they would rather raid Burgos, <a href="/wiki/Generalissimo_Franco" class="mw-redirect" title="Generalissimo Franco">Generalissimo Franco</a>'s headquarters. The hundreds of incendiary bombs that they dropped on White hangars and munition dumps they jokingly described as "Messages of Christmas Cheer for the boys in Burgos.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Uneasy+Christmas&rft.date=1937-01-04&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C762332-2%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1954/09/02/archives/bert-a0sta-59-a-neteran-flier-piloted-plane-with-byrd-and-balchen-a.html">"Bert Acosta 59, A Veteran Flier; Piloted Plane With Byrd and Balchen Across Atlantic in 1927, Dead in Denver"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. September 2, 1954<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2007-09-25</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Bert+Acosta+59%2C+A+Veteran+Flier%3B+Piloted+Plane+With+Byrd+and+Balchen+Across+Atlantic+in+1927%2C+Dead+in+Denver.&rft.date=1954-09-02&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1954%2F09%2F02%2Farchives%2Fbert-a0sta-59-a-neteran-flier-piloted-plane-with-byrd-and-balchen-a.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"Bert Acosta, Atlantic Flier, Dies". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>. September 2, 1954. <q>Bert B. Acosta, spectacular barnstorming pilot who, with Admiral <a href="/wiki/Richard_E._Byrd" title="Richard E. Byrd">Richard E. Byrd</a>, made the first trans-Atlantic flight in a multi-engined plane, died yesterday from advanced tuberculosis in a Denver sanatorium, the <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> reported.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Washington+Post&rft.atitle=Bert+Acosta%2C+Atlantic+Flier%2C+Dies&rft.date=1954-09-02&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Aviation-Hall-Of-Fame-Honors-Six221134-1.html">"Aviation Hall Of Fame Honors Six"</a>. 18 December 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 December</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Aviation+Hall+Of+Fame+Honors+Six&rft.date=2013-12-18&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.avweb.com%2Favwebflash%2Fnews%2FAviation-Hall-Of-Fame-Honors-Six221134-1.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span> His name was submitted for induction by Norberto Franco Cisneros.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nationalaviation.org/enshrinee/bertrand-bert-b-acosta/">"Enshrinee "Bert" Acosta"</a>. <i>nationalaviation.org</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=nationalaviation.org&rft.atitle=Enshrinee+%22Bert%22+Acosta&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnationalaviation.org%2Fenshrinee%2Fbertrand-bert-b-acosta%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABert+Acosta" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bert_Acosta&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, November 4, 1921; "Bert Acosta Wins Air Race Trophy; New York Aviator Defeats Five Contestants For The Pulitzer Silver Prize. H.E. Hartney Badly Hurt Parachute Jumper Drowned By Falling Into River After A 1,000-foot Leap At Omaha. <a href="/wiki/Omaha,_Nebraska" title="Omaha, Nebraska">Omaha, Nebraska</a>, November 3, 1921. Bert Acosta of New York won the annual Pulitzer silver trophy race for heavier-than-air craft here today, defeating a field of five other contestants one of whom, <a href="/wiki/Harold_Evans_Hartney" title="Harold Evans Hartney">H. E. Hartney</a> of New York, was injured when his plane crashed near <a href="/wiki/Loveland,_Iowa" title="Loveland, Iowa">Loveland, Iowa</a>."</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, October 2, 1922; "Brings Plane To Earth Without Landing Gear. Bert Acosta Comes Down Safely at Selfridge Field. Astonishes the Onlookers. <a href="/wiki/Mount_Clemens,_Michigan" title="Mount Clemens, Michigan">Mount Clemens, Michigan</a>, October 1, 1922. Landing the Navy Bee Line racer, which he was testing preparatory to its entry in the airplane races at Selfridge Field, October 12, 13 and 14, Bert Acosta brought the plane to Earth this afternoon without the use of its landing gear."</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, October 7, 1923; "Aviator Sent to Jail; Judge Gives Bert Acosta Five Days for Driving Auto While Drunk."</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, January 25, 1928; "Jersey Sheriff Wants Bert Acosta's Plane, Which Flew Away After His Attachment. Bert Acosta's Fokker monoplane The Splitdorf is wanted in Bergen County, New Jersey. Under Sheriff Jack Donaldson wants it. For a little while on Monday afternoon through his deputy, Louis Turro, the ..."</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Daily_News_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily News (New York)">Daily News</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Frederick,_Maryland" title="Frederick, Maryland">Frederick, Maryland</a>, December 3, 1936; "Acosta faces rebels"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, February 20, 1937; "Aviator Held in Nassau in Failure to Post Bail on Wife's Charge. Bert Acosta, who recently faced a Federal inquiry for enlisting in the Spanish Loyalist air force, was remanded to the Nassau County jail here this afternoon pending the posting of a $500 bond to insure his appearance in Children's Court next Friday morning."</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, December 17, 1945; "Bert Acosta in Hospital"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, August 12, 1952; "Bert Acosta in Hospital"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_Bridgeport_Telegram" class="mw-redirect" title="New Bridgeport Telegram">New Bridgeport Telegram</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut">Bridgeport, Connecticut</a>, September 2, 1954, Obituary</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i>, July 11, 1927, "Four men in a fog"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i>, February 6, 1928, "Goal"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i>, September 28, 1936, "Transatlantic Tradition", Pilot crews that hate each other</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i>, March 25, 1957, "End of the Adventure", Byrd Obituary</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bert_Acosta&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid 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