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1.	2 Flyers Missing in Austrialian Hop	1929-05-20	Aircraft accidents; Air pilots;	Text from back of image: "The waters of Timor Sea or the wild uninhabited shores of Northwestern Australia, on May 20th, cloaked the whereabouts of two English aviators, Flight Lieutenant J. Moir and flying officer H. Owen. The two flyers left Bima, Sumbawa, Dutch East Indies, May 18th, for Fort Darwin, and were not reported from afterward. A searching plane covering four hundred miles of the Australian coast failed to locate them. They took off from England March 18th. (Photo shows Flight Lieutenant J. Moir and flying officer H. Owen, reported missing on Australian hop.)"

2.	200,000 Watch Gordon Bennett Balloon Races	1930-09-01	Balloons (Aircraft); Balloon racing;	Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International Balloon Races. The City of Detroit was the first to take off. Pilots flying the foreign entries said they expected the race to follow a general northeasterly direction and end in the province of Ontario or in Labrador. They expected to travel between 600 and 800 miles and remain the air until Wednesday." Photo #2 - Shows the U. S. Navy balloon entered as the city of Detroit which was the first to take off

3.	200,000 Watch Gordon Bennett Balloon Races	1930-09-01	Balloons (Aircraft); Balloon racing;	Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International Balloon Races. The City of Detroit was the first to take off. Pilots flying the foreign entries said they expected the race to follow a general northeasterly direction and end in the province of Ontario or in Labrador. They expected to travel between 600 and 800 miles and remain the air until Wednesday." Photo #1 - shows the Gordon Bennett balloon entries just before takeoff today at Cleveland

4.	200,000 Watch Gordon Bennett Balloon Races	1930-09-01	Balloons (Aircraft); Balloon racing;	Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International Balloon Races. The City of Detroit was the first to take off. Pilots flying the foreign entries said they expected the race to follow a general northeasterly direction and end in the province of Ontario or in Labrador. They expected to travel between 600 and 800 miles and remain the air until Wednesday." Photo #3 - Shows Ed. Hill, pilot, at left, and Arthur G. Schlosser, aide, of the city of Detroit, just before takeoff. According to latest press dispatches they are in the lead.

5.	200,000 Watch Gordon Bennett Balloon Races	1930-09-01	Balloons (Aircraft); Balloon racing;	Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International Balloon Races. The City of Detroit was the first to take off. Pilots flying the foreign entries said they expected the race to follow a general northeasterly direction and end in the province of Ontario or in Labrador. They expected to travel between 600 and 800 miles and remain the air until Wednesday." Photo #4 - Shows aerial views of Cleveland Airport just before takeoff in the Gordon-Bennett International Balloon Races today.

6.	200,000 Watch Gordon Bennett Balloon Races		Balloons (Aircraft); Balloon racing;	Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International Balloon Races. The City of Detroit was the first to take off. Pilots flying the foreign entries said they expected the race to follow a general northeasterly direction and end in the province of Ontario or in Labrador. They expected to travel between 600 and 800 miles and remain the air until Wednesday." Photo #6 - Shows crowd at Cleveland Airport watching Gordon-Bennett Balloon entries today.

7.	200,000 Watch Gordon Bennett Balloon Races	1930-09-01	Balloons (Aircraft); Balloon racing;	Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International Balloon Races. The City of Detroit was the first to take off. Pilots flying the foreign entries said they expected the race to follow a general northeasterly direction and end in the province of Ontario or in Labrador. They expected to travel between 600 and 800 miles and remain the air until Wednesday." Photo #5 - Shows aerial views of Cleveland Airport just before takeoff in the Gordon-Bennett International Balloon Races today.

8.	3 U.S. Globe Fliers Cross Pacific Ocean 878-Mile Flight	1924-05-17	Air pilots; Airplanes; Transcontinental flights;	Text from back of image: 'Fighting through chill arctic winds and snow storms, the three U.S. army round the world fliers, under command of Lieut. Lowell Smith, above, negotiated the 878-mile flight from Attu Island to Paramashiru Island, thereby gaining for their country and themselves the distinction of being the first to cross the Pacific Ocean by air. This latest and exclusive photo taken at Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, recently shows Lieut. Lowell Smith looking over the motor of his plane.'

9.	9 Ton Plane Catapulted Into Air	1931-05-27	Airplanes; Inventions;	Text from back of image: "Successful tests were conducted recently at the Farborough Experimental Station, Hampshire, England, with a new land catapult, the only device of its kind in the world. A giant bombing plane, weighing nine tons was catapulted into the air at a speed of 60 miles an hour from the new device. Squadron leader Caster and flight Lieutenant Ryde were the occupants of the plane. This photo shows the plane in the air immediately after leaving the catapult."

10.	A Collosal Guide to Air Liners!		Water towers;	Text from back of image: "This collosal water tower at Nassau, Bahamas, 210 feet above sea level and topped by a revolving light serves as a guide to the air liners of the Pan-American services. From its top, reached by elevator, a view for 30 miles around can be obtained."

11.	A Flying Telephone Booth!	1929-05-06	Airplanes;	Text from back of image: "Photo shows the Fairchild cabin monoplane, from which engineers of the Bell Laboratories, recently conducted successful tests of a new means of plane ground telephone inter-communication. Newspapermen aloft in the ship talked by means of radio to an ordinary telephone central exchange and thence over the usual land lines to their offices. Projecting upright from the fuselage is the radio antenna."

12.	A Japanese Screen of a Smoky Pattern		Airplanes; Smoke;	Text from back of image: "A very spectacular scene was staged during the great air pageant, at Yoyogi Fields, in Japan, when over a hundred airplanes staged a 'smoke battle' up among the clouds. This photo shows two of the planes making a smoke screen at the event."

13.	A Modern Sailor on the Job		Airplanes;	Text from back of image: "High above the clouds over Anacostia, DC this Navy flier is preparing for the Pulitzer Air Derby in Detroit next month."

14.	A Twentieth Century Goddess	1924-03-25	Airplanes; Girls;	Text from back of photo: 'Scattering rose petals to the four winds as a blessing on the round the world flyers for whom she was nominated as the goddess of flight, Miss Edna French, a member of a New York theatrical company, formed a pretty picture at Curtiss Field, Long Island, Tuesday, March 25.'

15.	Aerial Hobo Makes Debut	1924-03-22	Air pilots; Airplanes;	Text from back of image: "The aerial hobo has appeared as a deluxe counterpart of his earthly contemporaries. In fact he is none other than a distinguished officer of the U.S. Army air service - Lieut. Frank E. Benedict who has departed from Clover Field, Santa Monica, CA., on a transcontinental round trip to Washington, DC, and return. Benedict will make the journey by "bumming" rides with other army flyers who are making short trips from field to field along the line. His first ride, from Santa Monica to San Antonio, TX, is being made in a huge Martin bomber that happened to be going that way. He expects to take two months to make the round trip. The picture shows Benedict in the bomber just before starting."

16.	Aero Expert at Work for Uncle Sam on Plane Invention	1923-11-16	Airplane engines; Inventions; Inventors;	Text from back of image: "Photo shows R. F. Kohr, chief of the aeronautical section of the Bureau of Standards in Washington, DC who is the inventor of a great helium-saving device for Uncle Sam's airships, at work on one of his motors that he used on perfecting the vaporizing device for getting water out of exhaust gas from airplane motors."

17.	After Hopping 400 Miles at a Time, A Mere Six Feet is Nothing		Air pilots; Transcontinental flights;	Text from back of image: 'This photo shows Lieut. Smith. U.S. round-world flier, jumping from one gun to another aboard the sunken Von Hindenburg, flagship of the German battle fleet which was scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1918. The picture was taken the day before Lt. Smith and Lt. Wade hopped off for Iceland, Lieut. Wade crashing in the sea a short time out from Houton Bay, Orkney Islands.'

18.	After Trans-Atlantic Flight	1934-05-28	Air pilots; Transcontinental flights;	Text from back of image: 'Paul Codos (left) and Maurice Rossi, the daring French airmen who crossed the Atlantic from Paris to New York in 38 hours and 27 minutes, are pictured at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, May 28, shortly after they had brought their silver monoplane to earth at Floyd Bennett Airport, Brooklyn, N.Y.'

19.	After Waitkus Crashed in Ireland	1935-10-01	Aircraft accidents;	Text from back of image: "After successfully crossing the Atlantic and after completing 3,000 miles of his proposed 3,800-mile flight, Lieut. Felix Waitkus, U.S. airman, was forced down by lack of gas and crashed in a field near Ballinrobe, County Mayor, Irish free state. Lieut. Waitkus, a Lithuanian by birth, was attempting a long-distance record flight from New York to Lithuania and had been flying blind for the greater part of his 22 hours in the air. Waitkus was uninjured in the crash. The above photo shows the wreckage of the plane."

20.	Air Mail pilot Killed in Plane Crash	1929-01-06	Aircraft accidents;	Text from back of image: "Piloting a mail plane from Boston to New York, Jan. 5th, Ned Carrington of Stamford, Conn., was killed when his plane crashed to the ground near Stafford Springs, Conn. Carrington, 26 and not married, was found by officers of Brainard Field, Hartford."

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