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Title: East-West mark set at 7 hours
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: 1947
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 dated September 3, 1947 shows air racing and movie stunt pilot, Paul Mantz at Burbank Airport, waving from his P-51 Mustang fighter plane. Mantz set a new, east-west trans-continental speed record for propeller-driven planes at 7 hours.; See images #00114869 through #00114872 for all photos in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00114869
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d016_f18_i2
CARL0005307554
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48937
Subject: Mantz, Paul,--1903-1965
Hollywood-Burbank Airport
Air pilots--United States
Stunt performers--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)--Speed records
Fighter planes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Mustang (Fighter plane)
Airports--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs

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