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-Image:Flying_Armors.jpg|The Flying Armors (c.1965)
+Image:Flying_Armors.jpg|The Flying Armors (c.1958)
-File:Flying_Armors_Color.jpeg|The Flying Armors (c.1970)
+File:Flying_Armors_Color.jpeg|The Flying Armors (c.1969)
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 The act was composed of Bob Yerkes, who was the catcher, his wife, Dorothy, and Reggie and his wife, Bonnie, née [[The Cristiani Family|Cristiani]]&mdash;a member of the famous Italian family of equestrians, whom he had met on Muscle Beach in the early 1950s. Between circus contracts, Bob and Reggie performed movie stunts in Hollywood; Reggie appeared notably in Michael Todd’s award-winning movie, ''Around The World In Eighty Days'' (1956).
-[[Image:Flying_Armors.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Flying Armors (c.1965)]]At five feet seven inches (1.72 meters), Reggie was rather tall for a flyer; yet in 1962, Yerkes caught Reggie’s first triple&mdash;a trick Reggie Armor would perform regularly with a success rate of more than 90%. In short order, The Flying Artons became a star act; Reggie was sometimes compared to the legendary [[The Codonas|Alfredo Codona]], and he and his partners were featured in all major American circuses, and on television on ABC’s ''Hollywood Palace'' in 1956.
+[[Image:Flying_Armors.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Flying Armors (c.1958)]]At five feet seven inches (1.72 meters), Reggie was rather tall for a flyer; yet in 1962, Yerkes caught Reggie’s first triple&mdash;a trick Reggie Armor would perform regularly with a success rate of more than 90%. In short order, The Flying Artons became a star act; Reggie was sometimes compared to the legendary [[The Codonas|Alfredo Codona]], and he and his partners were featured in all major American circuses, and on television on ABC’s ''Hollywood Palace'' in 1956.
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 The act was composed of Bob Yerkes, who was the catcher, his wife, Dorothy, and Reggie and his wife, Bonnie, née [[The Cristiani Family|Cristiani]]&mdash;a member of the famous Italian family of equestrians, whom he had met on Muscle Beach in the early 1950s. Between circus contracts, Bob and Reggie performed movie stunts in Hollywood; Reggie appeared notably in Michael Todd’s award-winning movie, ''Around The World In Eighty Days'' (1956).
-[[Image:Flying_Armors.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Flying Armors (c.1965)]]At five feet seven inches (1.72 meters), Reggie was rather tall for a flyer; yet in 1962, Yerkes caught Reggie’s first triple&mdash;a trick Reggie Armor would perform regularly with a success rate of more than 90%. In short order, The Flying Artons became a star act; Reggie was sometimes compared to the legendary [[The Codonas|Alfredo Codona]], and he and his partners were featured in all major American circuses, and on television on ABC’s ''Hollywood Palace'' in 1956.
+[[Image:Flying_Armors.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Flying Armors (c.1965)]]At five feet seven inches (1.72 meters), Reggie was rather tall for a flyer; yet in 1962, Yerkes caught Reggie’s first triple&mdash;a trick Reggie Armor would perform regularly with a success rate of more than 90%. In short order, The Flying Artons became a star act; Reggie was sometimes compared to the legendary [[The Codonas|Alfredo Codona]], and he and his partners were featured in all major American circuses, and on television on ABC’s ''Hollywood Palace'' in 1956.
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-After a long association, Bob Yerkes and Reggie Armor eventually parted ways, and Reggie continued with his own act, the Flying Armors, which included his daughter, SaSa Armor. The Flying Armors appeared in England, on Thames Television’s ''Live From The Hippodrome'' (1966), and are one of the acts featured in Gilbert Gates’s circus documentary, ''Rings Around The World'' (released in 1966).
+After a long association, Bob Yerkes and Reggie Armor eventually parted ways, and Reggie continued with his own act, the Flying Armors, which included his daughter, SaSa Armor. The Flying Armors appeared in England, on Thames Television’s ''Hippodrome'' (1966), and are one of the acts featured in Gilbert Gates’s circus documentary, ''Rings Around The World'' (released in 1966).
-When Reggie retired from flying, he and his wife created an aerial thrill act, with a rotating contraption that included a motorcycle Reggie rode on a small circular wooden platform up in the air. In 1978, while performing outdoors at a church benefit fair, Reggie lost his balance and fell fifty feet to the concrete walkway below. He was severely injured and had to undergo no less than six surgeries that kept him hospitalized for several months.
+When Reggie retired from flying, he and his daughter created an aerial thrill act, with a rotating contraption that included a motorcycle Reggie rode on a small circular wooden platform up in the air. In 1978, while they were performing their act for the last time, outdoors at a church benefit fair, the carabiner holding Reggie's safety belt broke, and he fell sixty feet to the concrete walkway below. He was severely injured and had to undergo no less than six surgeries that kept him hospitalized for several months.
-That was the end of Reggie Armor’s performing career. He continued to work in a circus management capacity and as an event promoter. Reggie and Bonnie eventually retired, and they left Sarasota, Florida, home of many circus families, to settle in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Reggie Armor passed away in Tulsa on May 22, 2010. He was eighty years old. He and Bonnie had two children, SaSa and Reginald III.
+That was the end of Reggie Armor’s performing career. He continued to work in a circus management capacity and as an event promoter. Reggie and Bonnie eventually retired, and they left Sarasota, Florida, home of many circus families, to settle in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Reggie and Bonnie Armor had three children, Jay, SaSa and Reginald III. Jay, the oldest, worked as a clown in the trampoline act the family performed in addition to other acts; he was tragically killed in a random shooting in a bar on New Year's Eve 1975, at age 21.
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 * Video: [[Flying_Armors_Video_(c.1965)|The Flying Armors (c.1965)]] in Massachusetts.
-* Video: [[Flying_Armors_Video_(1966)|The Flying Armors (1966)]] in ''Live From The Hippodrome''.
+* Video: [[Flying_Armors_Video_(1966)|The Flying Armors (1966)]] On Thames Television's ''Hippodrome''.
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−	Reggie Armor (1929-2010) was one of the great flyers of the 1960s and 1970s, a triple somersaulter at a time when only a few flying trapeze artists were able to master the triple somersault from the fly-bar to the catcher. He later created an aerial thrill act until his retirement in 1978, due to an accident during a ~~performance~~.	+	Reggie Armor (1929-2010) was one of the great flyers of the 1960s and 1970s, a triple somersaulter at a time when only a few flying trapeze artists were able to master the triple somersault from the fly-bar to the catcher. He later created an aerial thrill act, which he performed until his retirement in 1978, due to an accident during a show.

	Reginald C. Armor was born October 25, 1929 in Los Angeles, California, to a family that had no connection with the circus world. In his teens, young Reggie learned acrobatics on the famous "Muscle Beach" at Santa Monica, California and decided to make a living as an acrobat. He first joined the [[Dewayne Troupe]], with which he worked in both a teeterboard act and a risley act, and then participated in a few other acrobatic acts.		Reginald C. Armor was born October 25, 1929 in Los Angeles, California, to a family that had no connection with the circus world. In his teens, young Reggie learned acrobatics on the famous "Muscle Beach" at Santa Monica, California and decided to make a living as an acrobat. He first joined the [[Dewayne Troupe]], with which he worked in both a teeterboard act and a risley act, and then participated in a few other acrobatic acts.

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	That was the end of Reggie Armor’s performing career. He continued to work in a circus management capacity and as an event promoter. Reggie and Bonnie eventually retired, and they left Sarasota, Florida, home of many circus families, to settle in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Reggie Armor passed away in Tulsa on May 22, 2010. He was eighty years old. He and Bonnie had two children, SaSa and Reginald III.		That was the end of Reggie Armor’s performing career. He continued to work in a circus management capacity and as an event promoter. Reggie and Bonnie eventually retired, and they left Sarasota, Florida, home of many circus families, to settle in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Reggie Armor passed away in Tulsa on May 22, 2010. He was eighty years old. He and Bonnie had two children, SaSa and Reginald III.
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		+	* Video: [[Flying_Armors_Video_(1966)\|The Flying Armors (1966)]]

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