Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. In October 1928 Collyer and Harry Tucker completed the second East-West nonstop transcontinental flight in 24 hours and 58 minutes, which was one hour and 52 minutes under the record established by the first flight. Photograph appears with the article, "Plane Breaks Flight Record," Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct 1928: A1. Collyer is positioned on top of the Yankee Doodle climbing into the cockpit. Harry Tucker stands in the shadow of the wing, another unidentified man gesturing towards him, standing several feet away. Text from newspaper caption from 26 Oct 1928 article: Third Nonstop Effort Results in Outstanding Success Three times in the history of aviation nonstop flights across the North American continent have been made, the latest being completed yesterday with the arrival here of Capt. C. B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker in the monoplane Yankee Doodle, 24 hours and 52 minutes out of New York. The map above, drawn by Charles Hamilton Owens, Times staff artists, shows routes and times of three flights. Inset shows Yankee Doodle as it circled over Mines Field yesterday before "setting down." At left below are Capt. Collyer and Tucker as they appeared upon arrival here; at right, Capt. Collyer climbing out of cockpit at the field. Text from negative sleeve: COLLYER, C.B.D. AVIATOR
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_1699 ark:/21198/zz002dc6qr
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Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles Monoplanes--American--California--Los Angeles Tucker, Harry, 1891-1928 Collyer, Charles Bascom Drury, 1898-1928
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