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Photograph caption dated November 4, 1957 reads, "Pilot Richard Whitehead Jr., who crashed today at Van Nuys Airport in tiny 'Pinwheel' helicopter, lies in Valley Hospital with broken ankle and talks over accident with Rotorcraft Company president Gilbert Magill."
Rotor-Craft Corp. (Glendale, Calif.) Van Nuys Airport Valley Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.) Helicopter pilots--United States Helicopters--Piloting Helicopters Hospital patients Hospitals Wounds and injuries Ankle--Fractures Men Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Group portraits
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