Flying with Howard Hughes: A Co-Pilots Diary (Volume 1)
Thomas L. Thurlow was born in 1905 and attended Stanford University for two and a half years. He left college and graduated from the Primary Flying School in 1929.  The War Department granted Thurlow two months leave in 1938 so that he could participate in Howard Hughes’ around-the-world flight as a co-pilot and a navigator. The crew of five men broke the world record by circumventing the globe in three days, nineteen hours. Colonel Thurlow crashed to his death in an airplane accident in 1944 while flight testing a new compass. The Thurlow Award, given in Colonel Thurlow’s memory by the Institute of Navigation, is awarded annually to individuals making important relating to navigation.