page_title: Wellington Porter McFail
hierarchical_section_title: Wellington Porter McFail
caption_attribution_description: English: Cropped image of McFail during FDR medal presentation 29 Oct., 1935.
context_page_description: Wellington Porter McFail was a pioneering pilot, barnstormer, wing walker, airline and air mail pilot, and one of only ten recipients of the Airmail Flyers' Medal of Honor.
  Born 30 January 1892, W.P. was the youngest of four children born to Francis Robert McFail and Elsie Elizabeth Irons, in Portage, Wisconsin. His mother died when he was only 4 years old and his father remarried Allie "Olive" J Lintner.
context_section_description: Wellington Porter McFail(aka W. P. McPhail)(January 30, 1892 – February 7, 1965) was a pioneering pilot, barnstormer, wing walker, airline and air mail pilot, and one of only ten recipients of the Airmail Flyers' Medal of Honor.
  Born 30 January 1892, W.P. was the youngest of four children born to Francis Robert McFail and Elsie Elizabeth Irons, in Portage, Wisconsin.  His mother died when he was only 4 years old and his father remarried Allie "Olive" J Lintner.
caption: Cropped image of McFail waiting to receive Airmail Flyers' Medal of Honor from FDR.
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