Language: No linguistic content / Resource Type: still image / Names: Mines Field (Los Angeles, Calif.) / Subject: Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: Cliff Henderson, Director of the Municipal Airport; Bobbi Trout, pilot; and R. O. Bone, manufacturer of the Golden Eagle monoplane, pose for a photo at Mines Field, Los Angeles Municipal Airport. The photo was taken just before or after Trout beat the latest women's world endurance flight record. Reported in "TWO WOMEN SOAR ALOFT IN QUEST OF AIR RECORDS: Miss Trout Ship Drones Through Darkness," Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb 1929: A1.
Date:: February 11-12, 1929
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:: This photograph was likely taken in August, 1930 when Schneider completed the 4 day flight from New Jersey to Los Angeles, breaking a transcontinental air speed record for pilots under the age of twenty-one.
Date:: [circa August, 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: This photograph was likely taken in August, 1930 when Schneider completed the 4 day flight from New Jersey to Los Angeles, breaking a transcontinental air speed record for pilots under the age of twenty-one.
Date:: [circa August, 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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