
Ambrose Peabody in 1938.
Ambrose Peabody (1880 - 1947) was an American pilot and mechanic from Los Angeles.
Biography[]
Peabody was born 1880 in Pomona, California. He was the uncle and stepfather of Cliff Secord after his parents died in a car accident in 1920.
In 1938, Peevy was one of the mechanics at an airfield owned by Otis Bigelow. He and Cliff invested a great deal of money on a new racing plane called the Gee Bee racer. When Cliff takes it out for a test flight, it ended up getting shot down by a mobster and after the plane crashed into Bigelow's fuel truck, he ended up having to take the wrap for it along with Cliff. After he and Cliff are offered the choice to either participate in a clown act for a plane show the next day or settle in court with Bigelow, he and Cliff discovered a rocket pack stashed in an old biplane, which Cliff has to fly for the clown act and after Cliff triggered the throttle on the rocket pack, it flies around the hangar. Later that night, he and Cliff saw off a wooden statue from a nearby flight school and tested the rocket pack on the statue of Charles Lindbergh elsewhere in the valley. After the statue along with the rocket crash landed in the field, Peevy worried that the rocket will get them into more trouble than they currently were. After then head of the statue got damaged, Cliff decides they are going to need a helmet and later that night, he drew out the schematics of the rocket and built a helmet for Cliff to use with the rocket.
The following day, when Cliff attempted to rescue Malcolm from the biplane, which runed out of gas, by using the rocket, Peevy discouraged him from doing so as they have not tested it enough. After Cliff departed the airfield after rescuing Malcolm, Peevy followed him to a nearby lake and retrieved Cliff and warned him about what the helmet does while using the rocket. Later that night, he and Cliff were attacked by Lothar at their house, which later became a shootout by the FBI, and they ended up escaping to the diner, where they hanged out. Peevy recommended that they call the FBI to rid of the rocket, but then they were interrupted after Eddie Valentine's boys arrived at the diner to look for Cliff. After a rough encounter with them, Peevy discouraged Cliff from using the rocket again. Having sympathy for Jenny Blake being in trouble, he helped Cliff patch up a hole in the rocket with a piece of gum. Then as Cliff took off to the South Seas Club to get to Jenny with the rocket, someone aims a gun at Peevy after he's fallen on the floor after Cliff's take off.
Late that same night, Peevy has a meeting with Howard Hughes where he discusses some of the kinks he found with the rocket and the helmet too. Cliff arrived at the end of the meeting with the FBI and Cliff told them about the Nazis wanting to swap Jenny for the rocket. Cliff then took off from Howard's office and headed off to the Griffin Observatory. Later on, Peevy and Howard rescued Cliff and Jenny from the firey zeppelin with an autogyro.
Next day, when Howard Hughes delivered the new Gee Bee racer to the diner, Jenny gave him back the schematics of the rocket. Then he came up with an idea to possibly build a new model of the rocket.
Peevy died on 1947, Cliff and Jenny buried him in Pomona's cementery.