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Wayland Avery compares J. H. Montgomery's model airplane designed like bird's wings and a model of a vulture, Los Angeles, 1930

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Title: Wayland Avery compares J. H. Montgomery's model airplane designed like bird's wings and a model of a vulture, Los Angeles, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued: July, 1930
1930-07
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: Wayland Avery looks at a model of a vulture, which rests just above J. H. Montgomery's model airplane fashioned after a similar bird with rigid wings. Both the model airplane and the vulture model are on wheels; both are placed on a track spanning the length of the room. Reported in "Plane to Have Bird-like Wing: Construction Started Here on New Discovery; Tryout With Pilot Planned Within Two Months; Model Used in Tests Rides Against Strong Wind," Los Angeles Times, 6 Jul. 1930: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: Avery, Wayland.
Handwritten on negative: Wayland Avery
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3692_G231
ark:/21198/z1np7x83
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Inventions
Model airplanes
Montgomery, J. H
Avery, Wayland, 1887-1953
Vortex Wing Company
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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