More detail on this person: The very First WOC
to hover and then also the First to "solo" at Camp
Rucker in October and November 1954 was MSGT
Eugene Price, a member of our First WOC Class,
ACHPC 55-Fox. This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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"Gene" Price had been a line chief for a H-19 unit
in Korea, and had "bootlegged" alot of flight
time. His only problem was that he hovered the
H-13 about 15 feet in the air.... the H-19 "sight
picture".
"Gene" went on to a great career. After returning
from a CH-54 tour in Vietnam he set World's
records for altitude and time-to-climb in a CH-54
at the Sikorsky factory in CT. When he died in the
mid-70s, he was buried near the factory and his
grave is about 100 feet from Igor Sikorsky's final
resting place.
from Don Joyce