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C. B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker at Mines Field after a transcontinental flight, Los Angeles, 1928

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Title: C. B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker at Mines Field after a transcontinental flight, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: October 25, 1928
1928-10-25
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Left to right: C. B. D. Collyer, and unidentified man, and Harry Tucker stand in front of the the Yankee Doodle monoplane, a Lockheed-Vega, at Mines Field after a transcontinental flight. Collyer and Tucker piloted the plane. It was the second non-stop transcontinental flight, completed in twenty-four hours and fifty-eight minutes, which was non hour and fifty-two minutes under the record created by the first flight.
Reported in: "Plane breaks flight record: Yankee Doodle completes transcontinental trip; ship achieves success in spite of fog; time required 24 hours and 58 minutes," Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 1928: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: Collyer, C.B.D. Aviator
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1695
ark:/21198/zz002dc6kp
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Tucker, Harry, 1891-1928
Mines Field (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collyer, Charles Bascom Drury, 1898-1928
Source: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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