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1.	All for One; One for All'	Air pilots;	Text from back of image: "Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah - It was 'all for one; one for all' when John Cobb (center with goggles on head) went out to smash Capt. George E. T. Eyston's land speed mark by driving 368.85 miles per hour in his turtle-shaped Railton 'Red Lion.' Cobb is shown here with his team of expert mechanics and AAA officials and timers."

2.	Army Plane As Air Ambulance	Air pilots; Airplanes; Ambulances;	Text from back of image: "A United States Army plane was utilized as an air ambulance recently in Panama, when it became necessary to speed sufferers from Pinas, Panama to St. Thomas Hospital in the canal zone. This photo shows Miss Julia Gomez, a malaria patient, being taken from the plane at Albrook Field, C. Z., for transportation to hospital."

3.	Army Plane As Air Ambulance	Air pilots; Airplanes; Ambulances;	Text from back of image: "A United States Army plane was utilized as an air ambulance recently in Panama, when it became necessary to speed sufferers from Pinas, Panama to St. Thomas Hospital in the canal zone. This photo shows Miss Blanco Escobar, an acute appendicitis patient, being taken from the plane at Albrook Field, C.Z., for transportation to the hospital."

4.	Army Plane As Air Ambulance	Air pilots; Airplanes; Ambulances;	Text from back of image: "A United States Army plane was utilized as an air ambulance recently in Panama, when it became necessary to speed sufferers from Pinas, Panama to St. Thomas Hospital in the canal zone. This photo shows Elvia Bareta, a malaria victim being taken from the plane at Albrook Field, C.Z. for transportation to the hospital."

5.	Aviators Escape as Plane Plunges in Lake Michigan	Aircraft accidents;	Text from back of image: "It was a brand new navy type sea plane. Thousands of Chicago's home wending crowds watch it skimming along blithely over the harbor breakwater. Suddenly the white wings rocked, the tail upended and the fairy craft staggered nose down in a wild dive. Women screamed. Men ran. The ship plunged beneath the green waves throwing up a spray of steam and foam. Life boats put out. The fliers were found clinging to the wings not much the worse for their air and sea dive. It was a test flight that failed. Photo shows the wrecked seaplane in the water."

6.	Aviators Escape as Plane Plunges in Lake Michigan	Aircraft accidents;	Text from back of image: "Photo shows Ernesto Merlanti pilot on the new seaplane that dropped into Lake Michigan having his cuts and bruises attended by physicians on the U.S.S. Wilmette."

7.	Daring Parachute Jumper in the 'Pull Off' Action A-Plenty	Parachuting; Parachutists; Airplanes;	Text from back of image: "Lt. J. R. Tate, USN, caught in a remarkable photo in what is known as the 'pull off' the getaway of the jumper from the plane. He is jumping at an altitude of 1500 feet from a DT plane, over Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian Islands. The parachute has not opened up as yet, and Lt. Tate is upside down in mid air. It is a great picture."

8.	Destruction's Enemy	Inventors; Airplanes;	Text from back of image: "Harry Doucett, inventor of 'Wings' a parachute designed to save both plane and pilot alike is shown in the above picture seated in the plane which will test out the giant parachute. The invention will be used by a large motion picture corporation in a production which tells the story of the air service in the World War. A test flight is to be made in the near future."

9.	England's Latest in Aviation. Combination Land and Water Plane with Racket Arrangement Pulling Up Wheels When Landing Water	airplanes; inventions;	Text from back of image: "By an ingenious racket arrangement the landing wheels can be drawn up so that the machine can land on its pontoons on the water when the necessity arises. The 'Viking 11' recently gained the first prize in government tests."

10.	Famous London-Melbourne Plane Now Carring Passengers on Mid-Continent Airway	women; Airplanes; Airplane racing;	Text from back of image: "Miss Clara Johnson, United Air Lines stewardess, points to the special markings on the 200-mile-an-hour Boeing twin-engined transport which Col. Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn flew in the 13,323-mile London-Melbourne race. This plane is now the flagship of the new and faster Boeings which have been place in service on the New York-Chicago-Pacific coast route of United."

11.	First Coast to Coast Air Mail Flight Ends at San Francisco	Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Transcontinental flights; Air mail service;	Text from back of image: "E. E. Mouton, pilot of the U.S. mail plane, No. 151 which flew from New York to San Francisco, carrying mail. This is the first successful trans-continental air mail flight. Mouton was greeted by Col. John A. Jordan, Supt. of the Western Division of the serial mail service and Postmaster Chas. F. Fay and officials of the San Francisco Post-office."

12.	Great Aerial Derby at Hendon, England	Aircraft accidents;	Text from back of image: "Machine of F. J. Courtney, winner of the London Aerial Derby was slightly injured when his machine upset while he was making a landing at Hendon. The plane is shown in the picture taken immediately after the accident was turned over upside down. It is a Martynside Semi-quaver."

13.	Group of People Look Down on Crashed Plane from Roosevelt Aviation School	Aircraft accidents;

14.	Have You One in Your Garage	Airplanes; Hangars;	Text from back of image: "America's first folding-wing monoplane, the Fairchild FC1-A, powered with a 200-HP Wright air-cooled whirlwind engine, three passengers and pilot are carried in a comfortable enclosed cabin at a speed of 120 MPH - with wings folded the plane measures 12 feet across and will go into an ordinary garage."

15.	Height of Optimism	Parachuting; Parachutists;	Text from back of image: "To prove that Arveta Robner(?), 15 year old schoolgirl, was in no danger when she fell 1,000 feet at Roosevelt Field without her parachute opening, Henry Bushmeyer today took two jumps entangling himself in his 'chute strings each time. (Photo shows Henry Bushmeyer poised on wing of plane 2,000 feet up about to leap. He deliberately dropped 1,000 feet before opening chute)."

16.	Heroic Flyers Arrive at Honolulu and Are Given Big Reception	Aircraft accidents; Air pilots;	Text from back of image: "Gov. Farrington of the Hawaiian Islands, receiving message from Commander John Rodgers, on the arrival of the missing Pacific flyers, at Honolulu. The fliers were given a great reception. Photo taken at the Capital Building."

17.	Ice Forms on Pencil of Aviators Lost at Height of 19,800 Feet While on Barograph Test	Aircraft accidents; Air pilots;	Text from back of image: "Major S. M. Strong, flight surgeon of the Medical Corps attached to Mitchel Field at Garden City L.I., had a remarkable experience a few days ago while on a flight to test the recording barograph and get the 'ceiling' of the airplane. Major Strong who is well known and popular in Brooklyn and New york, was the observer on the flight and Captain Harry E. Smith was the pilot. When they began the ascent the temperature on the ground was 70 degrees. At a height of 19,000 feet, a spit on the fuslege froze solid in 25 seconds. Moisture on a pencil formed ice. The earth faded entirely from view. It took from 2:12 p.m. to 3:55 p.m to reach an altitude of 19,800 ft. At that height, the recording barograph, which started to make a record at 4,500 feet showed 15,000 feet. The aviators dropped to see where they were, but found they were lost. They did not recognize the terrain. As oil and gas were getting low, they decided to land and came down over housetops and trees near Portchester, N.Y. They narrowly missed hitting a stone wall. The flyers got gas and oil and flew in the fog by compass ___________, landing there at 7 p.m.

18.	Inventor of New Heliocopter	Helicopters;	Text from back of image: "Photo shows Stephen Nemett of Chicago seated in a new type airplane just completed. His plane is different from anything yet built, the motor being a twelve cylinder affair which rotates and the upper part of the plane is operated by chains on cog wheels which spin the wings around at great speed. This freak plane is able to fly straight up in the air."

19.	Lost in the Fog - Crash!	Aircraft accidents;	Text from back of image: "Crashing into the trees on the Jewell Blackwell farm at Green Curve, near Trenton, N.J. this mono-coupe cabin plane was completely wrecked. J.M. Harris of Germantown, the pilot, and C.H. Brown of Chestnut Hill who was with Harris, both climbed from the wreckage unhurt. Photo shows view of the wrecked plane."

20.	Mail Plane Crashes at Daytona Beach	Aircraft accidents;	Text from back of image: "When motor died shortly after the take-off, this mail plane crashed into Halifax River, Daytona Beach, Fla., recently. This photo shows the pilot, C.J. Faulkner and others effecting salvaging mail from sunken plane."

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