William S. Brock


William S. Brock, Sr. was an aviation pioneer. With Edward F. Schlee he made the eighth non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.

Biography

He was born in 1895. He married Violet Harrison January 23, 1915 in Rochester, New York and had as their son, William S. Brock, Jr. In 1927, he and Edward F. Schlee planned to fly around the world in their airplane "Pride of Detroit". He died on November 13, 1932 at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, Illinois of cancer.

Legacy

The airplane "Pride of Detroit" is in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.