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The record was set by 1st Lt. Russell L. Maughan, a U.S. Army Air Service test pilot at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, the site of the Air Service Engineering Division and its major flight-test center.
The Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) was developed to meet a requirement from the United States Army Air Service for an aircraft suitable for an attempt at the first flight around the world.
Ham Coolidge and Quentin Roosevelt attended Groton School together, attended Harvard together, and served together in the U.S. Army Air Service First Pursuit Group in France.
The facility is named in honor of 1st Lieutenant Robert Stanford Olmsted, U.S. Army Air Service, on 11 March 1948, killed in a ballooning accident over the village Loosbroek, Netherlands on 23 September 1923, while competing in the Gordon Bennett Cup.
In 1918, Virginius E. Clark, in charge of the Plane Design section of the U.S. Army Air Service's Engineering Division and Alfred V. Verville, who had recently joined the Engineering Division from private industry, started design of a single-seat fighter (known as "pursuit" aircraft to the U.S. Army), the VCP-1 (Verville-Clark Pursuit).