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Title: Turbine-powered helicopter tried on special flight
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
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: Photograph article dated March 25, 1960 reads, "Demonstration Flight - Los Angeles Airways and Sikorsky Aircraft Division of United Aircraft demonstrate world's first commercial turbine-powered helicopter over route between Los Angeles and Lockheed Air Terminal, Burbank. Shown from left, Harmon Bennett, city manager of Burbank; L. S. Wulfekuhler, Lockheed Air Terminal; C. V. Eccelestone Jr., president, Burbank Chamber of Commerce, and Robert P. Hubley, passenger traffic manager, Los Angeles Airways, Inc."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00093379
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d006_f32_i1; H-2085
CARL0005019761
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/43819
Subject: United Aircraft Corporation.--Sikorsky Aircraft Division
Sikorsky Aircraft (Firm)
Bob Hope Airport (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
County officials and employees--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Demonstrations--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Helicopters--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Airways--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Airports--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Sikorsky helicopters
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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