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Jimmie Mattern
James Joseph "Jimmie" Mattern (March 8, 1905 – December 17, 1988) was an American aviator. Mattern undertook a number of aviation world records, including twice attempting to break the world record for aerial circumnavigation set by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. Both attempts failed, the second in 1933 resulted in a crash landing and subsequent rescue by Eskimos and Sigizmund Levanevsky in Siberia. In a twist of fate, Mattern would join the search for Levanevsky after he went missing in 1937. Levanevsky was never found.
Starting in 1938, Mattern was a Lockheed test pilot on the P-38 Lightning and during the war helped develop the 'Piggyback' 2-seat version that significantly reduced training accidents. In 1946 he was diagnosed at the Mayo Clinic with a ruptured blood vessel in his brain (perhaps due to repeated excessive g-forces experienced while demonstrating P-38s) and was unable to fly again because of the condition. After losing his ability to fly, Mattern and his wife became real estate brokers and then operated a travel agency. He also supported the space program, attended three Apollo launches and had his pilot's license carried to the moon aboard Apollo 11.〔UT Dallas. (Guide to the James J. “Jimmie” Mattern Collection ). Biographical Sketch, page 3.〕 He also marketed aviation calculators known as the Mattern computer, a course and mileage slide rule, in the late 1940s.
==Personal life==
James Mattern was born March 8, 1905 in Freeport, Illinois to Phillip and Caroline (née Kennedy) Mattern. He also had two older brothers and an older sister. Mattern married Della M. in Los Angeles in 1927. He requested a divorce in Chicago, Illinois in 1937 stating that Della had left him in 1932 and was living in Washington. On May 18, 1937, the day after his divorce was finalized, Mattern was married to Dorothy J. Harvey, a showgirl, at Berwyn Methodist church.〔"Jimmie Mattern Marries Showgirl". ''Wisconsin State Journal''. Madison, Wisconsin. Wednesday, May 19, 1937. Page 2.〕 He remained married to Dorothy until his death in 1988. Dorothy died in January 2002.〔Social Security Death Index〕
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