Monday, January 14, 2019
About the author
My name is Vahe Demirjian and I have marveled at Southern California's aerospace heritage since I moved down to Orange County in August 2002. Although the eastern United States was a hotbed of early heavier-than-air aviation stemming from the Wright brothers' historic flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903, Southern California, however, became one of grand hearths of US aviation development thanks to both the Great Depression and World War II. After all, my father worked at Scientific Platers doing polishing for components of warplanes built in California and elsewhere.
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