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Title: Boeing 299T Flying Fortress Mk 1 in flight
Date(s): 1940, 1940~
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Boeing Aircraft Company (originator)
Description: Text on verso: 'Only 18 of them were built.' Serial number AM528
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00031
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collections

Title: Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress bomber
Date(s): 1940, 1940~
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Boeing Aircraft Company (originator)
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00043
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collections

Title: Boeing 299T Flying Fortress Mk 1 in flight
Date(s): 1940, 1940~
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Boeing Aircraft Company (associated name)
Description: Serial number AM528
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00030
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collections

Title: Rescue plane in flight
Date(s): 1929-02
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_027
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: B-17D Flying Future (Flying Fortress) heavy bomber
Date(s): 1945, 1945~
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Boeing Aircraft Company (originator)
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00059
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collections

Title: Famous London-Melbourne Plane Now Carring Passengers on Mid-Continent Airway
Date(s): 1934, [1934]
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), United Air Lines, Inc. (originator), Boeing Aircraft Company (associated name)
Description: Text on verso: '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.'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00479
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collections

Title: A Salute From the New to the Old
Date(s): 1936-09-14
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.) (photographer), Boeing Aircraft Company (associated name)
Description: Text on verso: 'A dramatic contrast between the Old West and the new was given at the Pendleton, Ore., round-up when an 1100-horsepower Boeing transport plane swept low over a 12-mule freight wagon team of the type used for cross-country hauling in the West before the railroad era. The plane has a top speed of 202 miles an hour. The mule-freighter does well to cover four miles an hour.'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00594
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collections

Title: Interior view, Boeing Airplane Company
Date(s): 1929, 1929~
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant ), Boeing Airplane Company (associated name)
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_029
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: Boeing monomail
Date(s): 1930, 1930~
Contributor(s): United States. Post Office Department (associated name), United States. War Department (associated name), Underwood & Underwood (copyright claimant )
Collection ID: United States Air Mail Service photographs (Accession 1982.328)
Hagley ID: AVD_1982_328_030
Collection: United States Air Mail Service photographs

Title: Boeing XB-15 bomber aircraft
Date(s): 1940, 1940~
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Boeing Aircraft Company (associated name)
Description: Text on verso: 'Sometimes called the Super Fortress, this Titan of the air had a wing spread 45 feet greater than the Y1B-17. The XB-15 weighed 13 tons more, was 20 feet longer and three feet higher. Because of its extreme weight (35 tons) the XB-15 was equipped with double-truck landing gear having four huge tires. This airplane was so big each of the four 1000 twin-row Pratt & Whitney engines would be reached during flight by mechanics who crawled to the engines through the great wings. The...
Show moreText on verso: 'Sometimes called the Super Fortress, this Titan of the air had a wing spread 45 feet greater than the Y1B-17. The XB-15 weighed 13 tons more, was 20 feet longer and three feet higher. Because of its extreme weight (35 tons) the XB-15 was equipped with double-truck landing gear having four huge tires. This airplane was so big each of the four 1000 twin-row Pratt & Whitney engines would be reached during flight by mechanics who crawled to the engines through the great wings. The most modern devices for the aid of flight and navigation were incorporated; full radio equipment, automatic pilot, de-icers for the wings and wing-flaps to reduce the landing speed. (wing span 150 ft.; length about 90ft.'
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Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00060
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collections