Brice Herbert Goldsborough

Brice Herbert Goldsborough

Infobox Person
name = Brice Herbert Goldsborough


image_size = 200px
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birth_date = birth date|1889|3|20|mf=y
birth_place = Sioux City, Iowa
death_date = death date and age|1927|12|23|1889|3|20|mf=y
death_place = crashed on way to Newfoundland
occupation = Aviator
spouse =
parents =
children = Frank Goldsborough

Brice Herbert Goldsborough (March 20, 1889 – December 23, 1927) was an aviation instrument designer at Sperry Gyroscope and later founded the Pioneer Instrument Company. He flew aboard the "Spirit of St. Louis" with Charles Lindbergh in two test flights. He died in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean with Frances Wilson Grayson aboard "The Dawn".

Birth and early career

Brice was born in Sioux City, Iowa. His brother was Charles Frances Goldsborough and Charles married Julia Ethel. Brice's son was Frank Goldsborough (1910-1930) who was also a record holding aviator who died in a crash. In 1910 he was living in Washington, D.C., and he was working as an electrician. He moved to New York City and lived at 136 Havemyer Street in Brooklyn and later moved to 754 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Brice appears in the 1920 Manhattan City Directory living at 6 East 87th Street and working at the Pioneer Instrument Company at 246 Greenwich Street. The company was founded with Morris Titterington, the inventor of the ground induction compass; and Charles H. Colvin.

1926 Ford Reliability Tour

Walter Herschel Beech (1891-1950) and Brice Herbert Goldsborough won the 1926 Ford Reliability Tour aboard their Travel Air B6 airplane. Brice also flew with Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974) aboard the Spirit of St. Louis in test flights from Curtiss Field as an "instrument expert" on: May 13, 1927 for 10 minutes; and May 15, 1927 for 15 minutes. Lindbergh's record breaking flight was on May 20-21, 1927. Brice was a veteran of the United States Navy.

The crash

On December 23, 1927 Frances Wilson Grayson with Brice H. Goldsborough as her navigator left from Curtis Field in New York for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland. Her plan was to leave from Newfoundland on a record setting transatlantic flight to London on Christmas day. Her plane, "The Dawn" was to be flown by Oskar Omdal, a Lieutenant in the Norwegian Navy. Frances may have planned to fly the plane in shifts with him. Brice Goldsborough would have been the navigator and Frank Koehler was to be the radio operator. Her plane never reached Newfoundland and sank in the water. There were several accounts of receiving radio messages from the plane when it was in distress. The bodies and the airplane were never recovered.

Timeline

*1891 Birth in Sioux City, Iowa on March 28
*1910 with Frank living in Washington, DC
*1920 Living at 6 East 87th Street and working at Pioneer Instrument Company
*1926 Ford Reliability Tour
*1927 Aboard the "Spirit of St. Louis" for 10 minutes on May 13
*1927 Aboard the "Spirit of St. Louis" for 15 minutes on May 15
*1927 Death with Frances Wilson Grayson near Newfoundland on December 23

References


*Washington Post; December 26, 1927; New York, December 25, 1927 (Associated Press) Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson, who has been missing since she took off Friday with three companions for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, was preparing to undertake her fourth attempt within three months to fly the Atlantic in her Sikorsky amphibian plane, the Dawn.
*New York Times; December 26, 1927, page 1; "Grayson Plane Radioed 'Something Wrong' Friday Night; Then the Signaling Ceased, Silent for 54 Hours Since; Probably Lost Off The Nova Scotia Coast In A Storm"
*New York Times; December 26, 1927, page 2; "Goldsborough a Veteran"
*New York Times; December 26, 1927, page 1; "Goldsborough's Wife Spends His Christmas Gift To Pay For Plane Search For The Dawn"
*December 26, 1927;
*Frederick Post; Frederick, Maryland; December 28, 1927;
*Time; January 2, 1928; "Broken Dawn"
*New York Times; March 2, 1928, page 08; "Widow Of Aviator Denies Dawn Story"
*Time; May 12, 1930; [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,752559,00.html|"American Boy] . A flight from New York to Los Angeles, begun on Monday and completed Sunday, is not in itself remarkable. But if the flyer be the young son of a crack airman who met spectacular death; and if the boy seeks a "junior speed record," public fancy is captured. Last week Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough, crossed the U. S. in 34 hr. 3 min. flying time, in a biplane named American Boy. ..."
*Time; July 28, 1930; [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,739955,00.html|"Goodwill Tour] . In the course of a tour of 100 smalltown Exchange Clubs, to demonstrate the dependability of aviation for passenger travel, Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough, took off from Cleveland for Keene, New Hampshire In the Green Mountains, he plowed into a peasoup fog. ..."

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