^San Francisco Bay Area Aviation. Arcadia Publishing. ص. 13. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2019-12-15. Weldon B. Cooke became its pilot. He had practiced in Oakland beginning in July 1910 with a Montgomery glider and subsequently trained with the Diamond several times a day. Cooke made his first professional appearance in a series of .
^"Weldon B. Cooke". Early Aviators. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2016-12-01. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2010-11-09. . He was on a vertical bank and never got straightened out, and was killed. Cooke had promised his mother he would stop flying, just before he was killed in the crash at Pueblo, Colorado, on 6 September 1914. .