Autogiro, Missing Link, flies low over an air field, Los Angeles vicinity, 1931

Item Overview

Title

Autogiro, Missing Link, flies low over an air field, 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
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

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.
Off-center to the right and in the near distance, the autogiro, Missing Link, flies through the air as it appears to approach its landing. It flies low to the ground, just above the tarmac that stretches beneath it. The plane is viewed from below and from its port side; it flies towards the left. A passenger in the plane is barely visible sitting directly beneath the rotor mast. Along the bottom edge, the tarmac and air field sprawl into the distance.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: AUTOGIRO - MISSING LINK PILOTED BY JOHNNY MILLER [handwritten:] X Box 18

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Miller, John M., 1905-2008

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