Searching for information about Flamingos, I uncovered details about the beautiful pink bird and a hotel in Las Vegas, bearing the same name—the latter allegedly haunted by the ghost of mobster Bugsy Siegel. I should have been more specific in my query.
I was actually searching for details about the extinct and largely forgotten metal airplane built at Ohio’s Lunken Airport (KLUK) in the late 1920s and early ’30s, and, specifically, about the guy who flew it in the ’30s, searching for a “river of gold” in Central and South America. The airplane was similar to other high-wing, strut-braced cabin monoplanes of the era but all metal and larger.
