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He arrived in the United States in 1920 to participate in an airflight competition around the world. The competition was canceled, because there were not enough participants.
Later, he worked for Curtiss-Wright and Boeing as an aircraft constructor. In the 1930s and early 1940s he wrote a series of aviation books including Your Wings, Safety in Flight, Through the Overcast, and Jordanoff's Illustrated Aviation Dictionary. An exceptionally good illustrator, he provided an abundance of hand-crafted pictures, making reading the difficult technical issue easy to understand. In the 1940s and 1950s was hired by the United States Department of Defense to write a set of instruction manuals for airplanes, submarines and carriers; for the crew, for inspection and for emergency response.