Text from back of image: "This photo is unusual in that it shows all three types of light-than-air craft in the same view. It was taken, recently, at the Naval Air Station at San Diego."
Text from back of image: 'Flying the same plane in which Clarence Chamberlin crossed the Atlantic, Captain J. E. Boyd, took off from Floyd Bennett Airport in New York City on June 11th on a projected non-stop good will flight to Port-Au-Prince,...
Text from back of image: 'Capt. Georges Kirsch and Lt. Antone Mourre, French aviators, who will attempt to fly from New York to Paris next year are visiting in Los Angeles. Capt. Kirsch held the world's altitude record of 11,000 meters in 1921, and...
Text from back of image: "Six men with six stilettos kept a 24-hour vigil beside the airplane Santa Maria II all the way across the Atlantic. It became known when the plane arrived in New York aboard the Duilio. The Santa Maria II will replace the...
Text from back of image: "An arrangement is being tried out at Youngstown, Ohio, that will receive a bag of mail from a plane and at the same time catapult another bag from the ground to the plane. This enables a plane to take on and distribute...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "The sorting of air mail while en route in the plane just as is done on railway mail cars, is predicted as a necessary time-saver in the future transportation of mail in the flying post offices of the future. The mail will...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "Blaine M. Tuxhorn is shown with his synchronized ejector 'cannon' by which he and a co-pilot expect to load fuel on a Barling NB-3 monoplane while in full flight and remain aloft more than 60 hours. The container held by...
Text from back of image: "An arrangement is being tried out at Youngstown, Ohio, that will receive a bag of mail from a plane and at the same time catapult another bag from the ground to the plane. This enables a plane to take on and distribute...
Text from back of image: "Shown above is the 'Lieutenant Erwin Francis Conway, U.S. Navy Memorial Trophy," which will be presented to Lt. A.K. Morehouse, USN, representing the Miami, FL, Naval Reserve Aviataion base. The Miami base, has the highest...
Text from back of photo: George E. Russell, aerial photographer of San Francisco, and Bob Hancock, wellknown pilot, landed on what is believed to be the highest landing field in the world when they made a trip recently and landed in the Templeman...
Text from back of photo: George E. Russell, aerial photographer of San Francisco, and Bob Hancock, wellknown pilot, landed on what is believed to be the highest landing field in the world when they made a trip recently and landed in the Templeman...
