ith the landing of the Arrow Sport in the autumn of 1931, Ron primarily returned to powerless ships—to
that Franklin PS2 at the Congressional Airfield and equally innovative secondary gliders at Chicago
fields. Then again, he returned to reporting on flight in ways which likewise placed him on the cutting
edge. For example, among other LRH articles to appear in The Sportsman Pilot was a then
definitive look at experimental radio navigation aptly entitled “Music with Your
Navigation,” and foretelling of his own adventurous foray into the field with his 1940 Alaskan Radio Experimental Expedition. Also for that publication was his 1934 examination of the fully
aluminum Ryan ST Super-Sportster, brainchild of a legendary Claude T. Ryan, who will forever live in
the annals of aviation for his design of Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis. Finally, there was
Ron’s genuinely decisive work on Capitol Hill towards the formation of an independent United
States Air Force (as opposed to a dependent Army Air Corps) and all other incidental adventures cited
here. Providing a keen glimpse of the Ron “Flash” Hubbard as the world of aviation saw him
is the following from aviation columnist H. Latane Lewis II as it appeared in The Pilot magazine,
July 1934.
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