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Title: Clare Vance's "Flying Wing"
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Night view of pilot Clare Vance's "Flying Wing" at Union Airport (Bob Hope Airport) in Burbank at the start of the Bendix races to Cleveland. The plane carried 1200 gallons of fuel in its thick center section, sufficient for a non-stop range of 7500 miles. Vance competed unsuccessfully in the race, which took place just a few months before his death in December 1932. The airplane was subsequently modified and was entered in, but did compete in the 1933 and 1934 Bendix races. Photo dated: August 22, 1932.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00069800
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Aviation-Airplanes.
CARL0000073697
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110649
Subject: Bob Hope Airport (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Airports--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Aeronautics--Competitions--California--Westchester (Los Angeles)
Vance, Clare
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Source: Smith, Robyn.

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