Box 6
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Clyde E. Pangborn (L) with Hugh Herndon (R) holding the sextant he proposes to use during their world flight. Roosevelt Field, Long Island, NY., July 1931.
Item — Box: 6, Folder: 26, Item: 8
Identifier: Subseries 2.2:
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The earliest photograph depicts the brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier with their airship, the first to use electric navigation; it is dated October 8, 1883, and is signed by both brothers. Contemporary photographic prints relating to the Wright brothers include the brothers posing with the "1904 Flyer" at Huffman Prairie (Simms Station), 1904; Wilbur Wright, F. S. Lahm, and Hart O. Berg with the Wright airplane at HunaudiŠres au Mans (Sarthe), France, 1908; and a Wright flyer...
Dates:
July 1931.
Orville and Wilbur Wright examine their airplane, Pau, France., January-March 1909.
Item — Box: 6, Folder: 31, Item: 8
Identifier: Subseries 2.2:
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The earliest photograph depicts the brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier with their airship, the first to use electric navigation; it is dated October 8, 1883, and is signed by both brothers. Contemporary photographic prints relating to the Wright brothers include the brothers posing with the "1904 Flyer" at Huffman Prairie (Simms Station), 1904; Wilbur Wright, F. S. Lahm, and Hart O. Berg with the Wright airplane at HunaudiŠres au Mans (Sarthe), France, 1908; and a Wright flyer...
Dates:
January-March 1909.
Cierva W.9 (PX203)., September 12-13, 1946.
Item — Box: 6, Folder: 35, Item: 8
Identifier: Subseries 2.3:
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
The Los Angeles Aviation Meet at Dominguez Hills in January 1910 is represented by two photographs, one a composite of airplanes over the stadium, the other of French aviator Louis Paulhan over the stadium. The collection also contains several photographic postcards of the San Francisco Air Meet, January 1911, the gift of B. W. Cohoon, of Pomona, CA; these postcards depict Philip Parmalee in his Wright Standard, Hubert Latham and his "Antoinette", and a Farman biplane. Two...
Dates:
September 12-13, 1946.