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Title
[Boeing Hornet Shuttle flight]
Date Created and/or Issued
[1929]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Plates in: California aeronautics photograph album : Dole Race and others, pg. 73.
Shows two biplanes, map outlining flight from New York to Oakland (marked with refueling locations) and portraits of six men. Portraits include: Captain Ira Eaker, Lieut. Bernard Thompson, Capt. Clair Streett, Clair Vance, Harold Lewis, Lieut. Newton Longfellow.
2009-0752.
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. Planes were the Boeing Hornet Shuttle and the Question Mark.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 8 1/8 x 10 in.
Identifier
(C)001415766CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Eaker, Ira C.--Photographs
Vance, Claire Kinsey,, d. 1932--Photographs
Thompson, Bernard--Photographs
Streett, Clair--Photographs
Lewis, Harold--Photographs
Longfellow, Newton--Photographs
Air pilots--California--Oakland
Biplanes--California--Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Portrait photographs
Place
California
Oakland
Oakland (Calif.)

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