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Title: Boeing shuttle plane at Oakland Airport, Capt. Eaker, Capt. Thompson
Date Created and/or Issued: [1929]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: California aeronautics photograph album : Dole Race and others, pg. 84.
Shows biplane sitting on airfield, airport buildings in background. Title handwritten on verso - original caption was Capt. Eckert, Eaker written over.
2009-0764.
Between August and Sept. 1929, U.S. Army partnered with Boeing to conduct air refueling experiment. Boeing Hornet Shuttle (Boeing Model 95) piloted by Ira Eaker and Lieut. Bernard Thompson flew nonstop transcontinental flight sustained solely by in-flight fuelings.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Identifier: (C)001415889CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Biplanes--California--Oakland
Airports--California--Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place: California
Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)

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