Training and First Flight Gunn was mentored by aviators
Lincoln Beachey at the Curtiss School in Hammondsport, NY,
Warren S. Eaton, Horace Kearney, and Glen Martin. His nephew, Curtis Joe, recalled hearing that Gunn had learned to fly in
Los Angeles and
San Diego. at the international aviation meet in Emeryville, California.
The San Francisco Examiner reported that hundreds from San Francisco's Chinese-American community turned out to see him. The plane was destroyed, and the building it crashed into was badly damaged. where his doctor described his chance of recovery as good. After watching Gunn make four flights around the airfield, Wei went for a ride in Gunn's plane. In May 1913, Gunn and Lily Tong announced their engagement. Gunn left
San Francisco for China in June 1913, but promised to return for Tong at the end of eight months. On June 10, 1913, Gunn arrived in
Honolulu, where he planned to stay for a month before traveling to China. On July 13, 1913, in front of a crowd of thousands, he carried his first Hawaiian passengers. Gunn had been offered a commission as a captain in the Chinese army, Gunn traveled to the
Philippines instead, By 1913, Gunn had built six different types of plane. ==References==