Wings Over Washington
In more innocent times, it was okay to buzz the Capitol.
- By Roger Mola
- AirSpaceMag.com, July 01, 2011

Library of Congress
On November 9, 1938, two Army pilots, Lt. Col. Leslie MacDill and Private Joseph G. Gloxner, were burned to death in a horrific wreck blocks from the Capitol en route to Bolling Field in Anacostia, Maryland, following a demonstration and training flight in a BC-1 pursuit aircraft. Three automobiles on the ground were also crushed.
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