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[45/62] In this first midair refueling, a wingwalker with a five-gallon can of gasoline strapped on his back climbs from the lower plane to the upper one and pours the fuel into its tank, circa 1920-1930

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11, Item: 1
Identifier: Series 2.
Series Scope and Content From the Series: Photographs and other materials used to illustrate Phillip H. Ault, By the Seat of Their Parts; The Story of Early Aviation (New York: Dodd, Mead, c1978). The bulk of the material concerns the history of aviation in the United States from 1900 to 1950, with special emphasis on the Wright brothers, barnstormers, the first flight around the world in 1924, early air mail carriers, Charles Lindbergh, the Dole Derby of 1927, Amelia Earhart, and Douglas...
Dates: circa 1920-1930