Mississippi to Ethiopia, the journey of ‘Brown Condor’. The Brown Condor was born John Charles Robinson in 1903, Florida. His family relocated to Gulfport, Mississippi and at age seven he spotted his first aircraft, a float plane. He became understandably excited but his mother countered with, a Black man has no business fooling around with airplanes. He attended the HBCU to become an automobile mechanic, after realizing the increasing importance of cars in every day life. Robinson wisely left Mississippi for Detroit, home of the major American Automakers. Robinson ran into a barnstormer* who had airplane engine troubles.
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