Nationality US Name Brice Goldsborough | Role Aviator Children Frank Goldsborough | |
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Born March 20, 1889 ( 1889-03-20 ) Sioux City, Iowa Occupation Instrument designer
Navigator Died December 23, 1927, Dominion of Newfoundland Organizations founded Pioneer Instrument Company | ||
Brice Herbert Goldsborough (March 20, 1889 – December 23, 1927) was an American aviation instrument designer at Sperry Gyroscope and later founded the Pioneer Instrument Company. He flew aboard the Spirit of St. Louis with Charles Lindbergh in two test flights. He died in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean with Frances Wilson Grayson aboard The Dawn.
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Birth and early career
Brice was born in Sioux City, Iowa on March 30, 1889. His brother was Charles Frances Goldsborough.
In 1910, he was serving in the United States Navy and living in Washington, D.C., and he was working as an electrician. He moved to Long Island and later to Manhattan. After serving two four-year terms in the Navy, he and Morris Titterington, the inventor of the ground induction compass, formed the Pioneer Instrument Company in 1919. In 1923, they moved the company to 754 Lexington Ave. in Brooklyn, after buying Brandis & Sons Company. Charles H. Colvin joined the company and was elected president, with both Brice and Morris as vice presidents.
1926 Ford Reliability NationalTour
Walter Beech (1891-1950) and Brice Herbert Goldsborough won the 1926 Ford Reliability National Air Tour aboard their Travel Air B6 airplane. Brice also flew with Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974) aboard the Spirit of St. Louis in test flights from Curtiss Field as an "instrument expert" on May 13, 1927 for 10 minutes and May 15, 1927 for 15 minutes. Lindbergh's record breaking flight was on May 20–21, 1927.
Family
Brice's son was Frank Goldsborough (1910-1930), who was a record-setting aviator who also died in a crash.
Commemoration
In 1928, the Ontario Surveyor General named a number of lakes in the northwest of the province to honour aviators who had perished during 1927, mainly in attempting oceanic flights. These include Goldsborough Lake (50.70°N 89.34°W / 50.70; -89.34), Grayson Lake (50.88°N 89.43°W / 50.88; -89.43) and Omdahl [sic] Lake (50.81°N 89.49°W / 50.81; -89.49) which are all found in close proximity to each other in the Wabakimi Provincial Park.