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Aviator Pete Reinhart eating a meal with his wife after flying for 247 hours straight, Los Angeles, 1929

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Title: Aviator Pete Reinhart eating a meal with his wife after flying for 247 hours straight, Los Angeles, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Aviator "Pete" (Roland Battreal) Reinhart (right) is examined by medical professionals, and receives a fresh meal at the Biltmore after landing a 247 hour flight, breaking the world's endurance record with the Angeleno, a plane flown with co-pilot Loren W. Mendell. A similar photograph appears with the article "JAMMED CONTROLS FORCE RECORD FLYERS TO LAND: Mendell and Reinhart in Air More Than 246 Hours Before Mishap; Physical Condition Good," Los Angeles Times, 13 July 1929: 1.
Text from newspaper caption: Getting Filled Up and the Bristles Taken Off / Food and a shave were the first desire of R. B. Reinhart and Loren W. Mendell when they came down after nearly 247 hours in the air. Reinhart is shown having his first regular meal sitting up in bed at the Biltmore with his wife sitting beside him.
Text from negative sleeve: Reinhart, Pete. Pilot.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3725_G4160
ark:/21198/z13n7wd5
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Airplanes--American--California
Medical examinations--California--Los Angeles
World records--United States--California
Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Reinhart, Ila, 1907-1940
Reinhart, Pete, 1901-1978
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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