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Elwood William Mason was born August 21, 1915 and while attending Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, he acquired skills in repair and maintenance of aircraft, and earned a pilot's license soloing in a Travel Air 2000. During this period of time he developed relationships with Long Beach aviation personalities such as Harvey Martin and Milo Burcham who later became Lockheed's Chief Test Pilot. An interest in photography yielded many interesting photos of the planes and celebrities of the 1930s at Daugherty Field in Long Beach and Los Angeles during the 1933 National Air Races. |