Friday's Mystery Flier

Congratulations to Richard and Les for identifying Clark Gable as the first mystery flier.

After I dropped the hint that yesterday's mystery flier (seated in the cockpit of his aircraft in a previous post) became famous 'in another FIELD' (That field being Boston's Green Monster), Les figured out it was Red Sox great Ted Williams.

So today's question---Who is the man pictured in this post at center with his crew? He went on to become very famous in another field, and is still alive.