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Description:: Schwamm poses with one arm on the back of a chair, in his flying clothes
Date:: January 21, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photograph of pilot Frank Hawks, wearing a full-length fur coat, and mechanic Oscar Grubb, wearing a leather flight suit, standing in front of Hawks' Lockheed Air Express Model plane. Hawks is holding up what appears to be a map.
Date:: February 4, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: John W. Beretta, an engineer, is in the front seat of the two seater plane as Henry B. Du Pont, in a pilot's helmet and goggles, climbs into the back seat at Vail Airport (owned and operated by the Western Air Express). A similar image taken on the same occasion appears with the article "Airplane Gets Flat Tire: Long Trip Made Without Other Mishap," Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 1927: A2. Henry B. Du Pont and John W. Beretta traveled from Detroit to Los Angeles in a Buhl airplane in a little less than a month, experiencing no trouble save for a flat tire and some inclement weather.
Date:: February 22, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: From left to right, Arthur Goebel, Sr., Arthur Goebel and Emma Goebel stand beside the "Yankee Doodle" monoplane. Arthur, Sr., rests a hand on the plane's wheel and looks to camera. To his left, Arthur, Jr. kisses his mother goodbye. Behind the Goebels and to the left, Yankee Doodle sits in partial view; its tail stretches back towards center. A large white patch cuts across the upper right corner. A few people appear to stand along the right edge to watch the farewell.
Date:: [circa August, 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Captain Eddie Rickenbacker meets with Los Angeles Mayor George E. Cryer to discuss the city providing a 1000-acre landing field for commercial airplanes. Reported in "COMMERCIAL AIR SERVICE FIELD URGED: Rickenbacker Tells Need of Huge Landing Place for Transcontinentals," Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 1925: 7.
Date:: August 15, 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Possibly related to the article, "Flyer Kurtz Back Safe After Brush With Death," Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 1935: A1.
Date:: November 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Armless pilot Josephine Callaghan sitting on the backseat of a biplane.
Date:: April 16, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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