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

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Title: C. B. D. Collyer, Allan Lockheed 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 Arcadia funds.
Captain C. B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker (right), who flew the Yankee Doodle monoplane on the second transcontinental flight, holding telegrams of congratulations. With them is Alan Lockheed (2nd from right) who designed the Lockheed Vega monoplane that was flown, and other unidentified people. They are at Mines Field on the day that Collyer and Tucker completed the 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_1698
ark:/21198/zz002dc6p7
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Lockheed, Alan Haines, 1889-1969
Collyer, Charles Bascom Drury, 1898-1928
Mines Field (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Tucker, Harry, 1891-1928
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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