Pilot Johnny Miller stands with 2 unidentified men beside the autogiro, Missing Link, Los Angeles vicinity, 1931

Title: Pilot Johnny Miller stands with 2 unidentified men beside the autogiro, Missing Link, Los Angeles vicinity, 1931
Date Created: [circa May - June, 1931]
Date: 1931-05/1931-06
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: A similar photograph of the Missing Link autogiro in flight is captioned, "Crowd Marvels at Strange Aircraft Autogiro as it appeared when dropping vertically to the ground at Los Angeles Airport and inset, John Miller of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., pilot of machine's first transcontinental trip," Los Angeles Times, 30 May 1931: A3
This photograph is possibly related to the article, "Missing Link of Aviation Ends Flight Here: AUTOGIRO REACHES CITY Strange "Windmill" Aircraft Flops Down Quietly After Long Flight Across Nation," Los Angeles Times, 30 May 1931: A3, and subsequent articles.
In the near distance at center, the autogiro, Missing Link sits on an airfield. It is viewed at an angle from its starboard side and faces back to the right. Its rudder sits nearest to camera and points downward towards the lower left corner. Beside the fuselage and in front of the right wing, three men stand in a row. At center stands the pilot, Johnny Miller. He dons an aviator's cap. The two unidentified men (possibly Clarence Brown at left and R. B. Barnitz at right) stand on either side of him. Beyond the men and the autogiro, the air field stretches into the distance.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: AUTOGIRO - MISSING LINK PILOTED BY JOHNNY MILLER [handwritten:] X Box 18

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Miller, John M., 1905-2008
Barnitz, Richard, 1891-1960
Brown, Clarence 1890-1987
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Transcontinental flights
Aeronautics--California--Los Angeles
Arrivals & departures--American--California--Los Angeles
Airports--California--Los Angeles
Autogiros--American--California--Los Angeles
Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_11159
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h94tp
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