Language: No linguistic content / Resource Type: still image / Names: Collyer, Charles Bascom Drury, 1898-1928 / Subject: Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph appears with the article, "Plane Breaks Flight Record," Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct 1928: A1.
Date:: October 25 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: 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.
Date:: October 25, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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.
Date:: October 25, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Captain C. B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker (right), who flew the Yankee Doodle monoplane on the second transcontinental flight, holding telegrams of congratulations. With them is Alan Lockheed (2nd from right) who designed the Lockheed Vega monoplane that was flown, and other unidentified people. They are at Mines Field on the day that Collyer and Tucker completed the flight.
Date:: October 25, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Press release text: East west non stop record set. Establishing an east-to-west transcontinental nonstop flight record of 24 hours and 52 minutes, the monoplane Yankee Doodle landed at Mines Field, Los Angeles, today. The previous record of 26 hours and 50 minutes set by Lts. John A. MacReady and Oakley Kelly in 1923 was lowered by nearly two hours in the flight. The fliers, Harry Tucker, millionaire sportsman and Capt. C. B. D. Collyer of 'round-the-world' fame, landed a little more that an hour after the time estimated for the journey. The monoplane used in this flight was also used by Art Goebel in his attempted non-stop flight during the National Aeronautical Show held in Los Angeles recently...
Date:: October 25, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: C. B. D. Collyer (right) 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.
Date:: October 25, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: In October 1928 Collyer and Harry Tucker completed the second East-West nonstop transcontinental flight in 24 hours and 58 minutes, which was one hour and 52 minutes under the record established by the first flight.
Date:: Oct-Nov 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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