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Title: Sixteen-year-old Robert N. Buck sets new flying record, Los Angeles, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued: October 1930
1930-10
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
On Monday 16-year-old Robert flew from Newark, New Jersey, and proceeded to make stops at Martins Ferry, Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Wichita, Albuquerque, and Kingman, before arriving in Los Angeles in 28 hours and 33 minutes.
A grinning Buck stands beside his plane, leaning on one elbow into the carriage.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Boy Flyer Sets New Time Mark," Los Angeles Times, 05 Oct 1930: A2.
Text from negative sleeve: BUCK, ROBERT BOY FLYER 1930
Handwritten on negative: Robert Buck
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1185
ark:/21198/zz002dbm07
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Teenagers
Biplanes--American--California--Los Angeles
Buck, Robert N., 1914-2007
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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