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After this historic flight, Meridian's public airport was renamed Key Field in the brothers honor.
The Key brothers later served as bomber pilots in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. Fred was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (USA), and Al earned a Distinguished Flying Cross (USA), a Distinguished Service Cross (USA), an Air Medal, a Distinguished Service Cross (UK) and seven Bronze Star MedalThe Bronze Star Medal is a United States military individual decoration and is the fourth highest award for bravery, heroism or meritorious service. Bronze Star Medal General information The medal is awarded to any person who, while serving in any capacit's for participating in combat. They both had distinguished careers--Al remained in the Air Force until his retirement in 1960Events January-February January 1 Independence of Cameroon January 9 Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt January 11 Chad declares its independence. January 14 Ralph Chubb, the gay poet and printer, dies at Fair Oak Cottage in Hampshire. January 23 at the rank of full ColonelColonel ( Ger: Oberst is a military rank, usually the highest below general grades, and just above Lieutenant Colonel. The word is pronounced similarly to "kernel". In the US military, a colonel in the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps is equivalent to a c and Fred ran the Key Brothers Flying Service at Key Field until his death in 19711971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). Events January January 1 British divorce Reform Act comes into force January 2 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland. See Ibrox disaster. Janua. The cutoff valve developed for the Keys by A.D. Hunter was an important innovation for national defense, being the precursor of those used by modern tanker airplanes, such as the KC-135 StratotankerKC-135 Stratotanker Description RoleMid-air refueling Crew4, pilot, copilot, navigator, boom operator Dimensions Length136. 53 m Wingspan130. 88 m Height41. 7 m Wing area2,433 sq ft226 mē Weights Empty98,466 lb44,664 kg Loaded297,000 lb134,719 kg Maximum, that keep bomberA bomber is a military aircraft designed to attack ground targets, primarily by dropping bombs. For other uses of the word bomber see bomber (disambiguation). Strategic bombers are primarily designed for long-range strike missions against strategic target and fighter aircraft in the air. Today, with only slight modifications, U.S. Air Force and Strategic Air Command airplanes use the valve that Hunter invented.