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Message:: [QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 1884, member: 44"]>I was having a tough time understanding how Willson and Meissner could have any connection ...It just seems otherwise quite improbable that a hobbyist photographer would travel all the way to Alabama to take his picture (assuming that's him in the pilot's seat in the photo.)< I agree, Bake, improbably. Oh well, just thought I'd throw out the info on Meissner anyways. BTW, I doubt the man in the plane is the pilot because he is in the wrong seat. I've flown a few times in a 2 seated biplane. The pilot always sat in the rear seat. I think the pilot is standing on the ground with the old leather helmet on. I tried to compare the pics of Meissner from those articles to any of the men in the picture, but can't say for sure if either looks like Meissner. Those pics of him seemed to have been taken during WWI possibly 5 years before like c1917-18. Here's another pic of him showing him with a broader face more like the possible pilot in the pic. Scroll down a little to the newspaper clipping:<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49259068" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49259068" rel="nofollow">http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49259068</a> --- Susan[/QUOTE]