For the baseball player, see Jack Frye (baseball).
Jack Frye
Born
(1904-03-18)March 18, 1904
Sweetwater, Oklahoma, US
Died
February 3, 1959(1959-02-03) (aged 54)
Tucson, Arizona, US
Occupation
TWA president (1934–1947)
Known for
Airline Pioneer
Spouses
Debbie Greer
(m. 1924; div. 1932)
"Jean" LaCoste
(m. 1932; div. 1939)
Helen Varner Vanderbuilt
(m. 1941; div. 1949)
Emily Nevada Smith
(m. 1950)
Children
Daughter - Nevajac Frye, b: 1953
Awards
Presidential Medal of Merit International Air & Space Hall of Fame National Aviation Hall of Fame
William John "Jack" Frye (March 18, 1904 – February 3, 1959) was an aviation pioneer in the airline industry. Frye founded Standard Air Lines which eventually took him into a merger with Trans World Airlines (TWA). Frye is credited for turning TWA into a world-class airline during his tenure as president from 1934 to 1947. He was called "The Flying President" among his peers. At age 24, he was and to this day the youngest airline executive of all time.[citation needed]
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plane and train trips across the United States. WAE had the expertise of JackFrye. TWA became known as "The Lindbergh Line", with the "Shortest Route Coast...
siblings, Pablo Huston and writer Allegra Huston. He is the uncle of actor Jack Huston and grandson of Academy Award-winning actor Walter Huston. He is of...
pioneers, and visionaries (including Juan Trippe, William A. Patterson, JackFrye, C.R. Smith, and Eddie Rickenbacker) who built the U.S. airline industry...
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and ethos. These rumors were discredited by Johnson. Howard Hughes and JackFrye confirmed that the rumors were false in a letter dated November 1941....
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production Lockheed Constellation, piloted by Howard Hughes and TWA president JackFrye, flew from Burbank, California, to Washington, DC, in 6 hours and 57 minutes...
American Aviation (Eastern Air Transport's parent holding company) and JackFrye of Transcontinental and Western Air, both of which had lost their mail...
the 247, but UATC declined the order, which resulted in TWA President JackFrye setting out requirements for a new airliner and funding Don Douglas to...
aircraft. It was thus that Hughes invited three workers from Lockheed and JackFrye (president of TWA) to a meeting at his Hancock Park residence. The Lockheed...
Jacob Frye and Evie Frye, collectively known as the Frye twins, are a duo of sibling characters from Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed video game franchise. They...
along with Emmy Award-winning musician Mark Frye, released an album through Virgin Records in 1996 entitled Jack Hanna's World. He was granted honorary doctorates...
subsidiary of Aero Corp. of Ca., founded in 1926 by Paul E. Richter, JackFrye and Walter Hamilton. WAE with Fokker aircraft merged with Transcontinental...
continued to fire from his window. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedic JackFrye and his partner drove directly onto the schoolyard and pulled children...
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those depicted by Frye were outrageously à propos as well as politically savvy and au courant. For example, in one narrative, Frye had newly elected Nixon...