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

Item Overview

Title

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

Date Created

October 25, 1928

Date

1928-10-25

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

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.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Collyer, C.B.D. Aviator

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Tucker, Harry, 1891-1928
Mines Field (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collyer, Charles Bascom Drury, 1898-1928

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles