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Title: Flivver Glider Crosses English Channel
Date(s): 1923-05-17
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: 'Photo show the llittle 'air flivver' flown by Pilot Barbot of France as it took off from St. Inglevert, France to cross the English Channel to Lympne, England. The little glider which was invented by Mons. Dewoitine of France is run by a 15 horse-power engine. This flight is considered by airplane experts as a remarkable feat.'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00174
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: Glider Rises 1200 Feet in Test
Date(s): 1929
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: 'Photo shows glider being towed by airplane shortly after leaving the ground during test flight. Scoring his second victory in a glider within the last month, Dale Drake, Reedley, Cal. aviator, soared to an altitude of 1200 feet in tow of a huge Fokker monoplane in a preliminary test flight prepartory to an attempt to fly to Long Beach, Cal. in tow of a power plane. Drake, with his tiny monoplane glider attached to a 700 foot rope fastened to the monoplane took off from a field...
Show moreText on verso: 'Photo shows glider being towed by airplane shortly after leaving the ground during test flight. Scoring his second victory in a glider within the last month, Dale Drake, Reedley, Cal. aviator, soared to an altitude of 1200 feet in tow of a huge Fokker monoplane in a preliminary test flight prepartory to an attempt to fly to Long Beach, Cal. in tow of a power plane. Drake, with his tiny monoplane glider attached to a 700 foot rope fastened to the monoplane took off from a field near Orange Cove, Cal. and after reaching an altitude of about 1200 feet, cut loose and volplaned to the field.'
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Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00176
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: Glider meet at Long Beach, Ca.
Date(s): 1930
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.) (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: 'Glider meet at Long Beach, Calif.'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00177
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: Thousands Watch Big Glider Meet
Date(s): 1929
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: 'A two-day glider meet, held at Pacific Beach near San Diego recently brought thousands of interested spectators. W. H. Bowlus, San Diego's only entry captured the distance and endurance record for the 'soarer' and came in second to Apollo Smith in the altitude contest.'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00175
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: Amateur flyers releasing small gliders
Date(s): 1930
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00569
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: Century May
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Wildhack, Robert J., 1881-1940 (artist)
Description: Image of a woman in flight on a biplane glider.
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. Aeronautical Collection (Accession 1971.MSS.0676.063)
Hagley ID: posterexhibit_033
Collection: Workplace posters in the United States