Art Goebel and Harry Tucker with his family stand next to the "Yankee Doodle" at Mines Field (Los Angeles International Airport) before departing for New York, which took 18 hours and 58 minutes. The Yankee Doodle was the first Lockheed Vega built that had a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine with 450 horsepower. This powerful engine helped her earn both the west-east and east-west speed records when Art Goebel was piloting. This photograph was taken just a few months before her fateful crash 30 miles southeast of Prescott on the night of November 3, 1928. Both Harry Tucker and his pilot, Captain C.B.D. Collyer, were killed in the crash. Photo dated: August 18, 1928.
Goebel, Arthur Cornelius,--1895-1973 Tucker, Harry Mines Field (Los Angeles, Calif.) Lockheed aircraft Airplanes--California--Los Angeles Airports--California--Los Angeles Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.) Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
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