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Awaiting arrival of world flight flyers at Bowling [i.e., Bolling] Field, [Washington, D.C., 9/9/24]

Awaiting arrival of world flight flyers at Bowling [i.e., Bolling] Fie...

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Arrival of round the world flyers at Bowling [i.e., Bolling] Field, [Washington, D.C., 9/9/24]

Arrival of round the world flyers at Bowling [i.e., Bolling] Field, [W...

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Arrival of Round the world flyers at Bowling [i.e., Bolling] Field, [Washington, D.C.], 9/9/24

Arrival of Round the world flyers at Bowling [i.e., Bolling] Field, [W...

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President Coolidge presenting major Herbert A. Dargue [...]tificate of the distinguished flying service cross at the [...]ican flyers arrive in Washington

President Coolidge presenting major Herbert A. Dargue [...]tificate of...

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President Coolidge poses with Pan American flyers. A close up of President Coolidge, and two of the Pan American flyers after they were presented with diplomas of the distinguished [...]g cross certificates, left to right, Major Herbert A. Dargue, President Coolidge, and Cap't Ira C. Eaker

President Coolidge poses with Pan American flyers. A close up of Presi...

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Mail brought to Washington by Former [...]ddies in Air Mail Service. [...]huge batch of mail for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh [...]rt and Harry G. Smith, night flyers in Uncle Sam's [...]ce, arrived in Washington today. Both of these [...]ddies" of Col. Lindbergh. In the photograph, left [...] liam Mooney, Washington Postmaster; Shirley J. Shor [...]mith

Mail brought to Washington by Former [...]ddies in Air Mail Service. [...

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This may help the weather reports. These transoceanic flyers, meeting in Washington with officials of the U.S. Weather Bureau and the Department of Commerce. the Meteorology Committee of the Guggenheim Foundation and representatives of other aeronautical interests, hope to help in improving weather service for aviators. Left to right, seated: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics William P. McCracken, Jr. , Lt. A.F. Hagenberger, Col. Arthur C. Goebel, Paul Schluter, Charles Levine, left to right, standing: Emory Bronte, Edward F. Schlee, Clarence Chamberlain, Lt. Lester J. Maitland, William S. Brock, and Berndt Balchen

This may help the weather reports. These transoceanic flyers, meeting ...

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French air conquerors of South Atlantic Ocean pay homage to America's Unknown Soldier. Lieuts. Dieudonne Cestes and Joseph Lebrix, daring French flyers who were the first to conquer the South South Atlantic Ocean by air, placing a wreath on the tomb of America's Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery today

French air conquerors of South Atlantic Ocean pay homage to America's ...

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Daring French flyers are greeted by President Coolidge at the White House. Lieut. Dieudonne Costes and Lieut. Joseph Lebrix, the intrepid French flyers who were the first to fly across the South Atlantic Ocean, were presented to President Coolidge at the White House today. In the photograph, left to right: Lieut. Costes; President Coolidge; Honorable Paul Claudel, Ambassador from France; and Lieut, Lebrix

Daring French flyers are greeted by President Coolidge at the White Ho...

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One of the first transatlantic flyers. Washington, D.C., May 29. Walter Hinton, one of the pilots on the U.S. Navy's first [à] flight across the Atlantic in 1919, as he appears today. In 1922 he was the first to fly a plan to South Carolina

One of the first transatlantic flyers. Washington, D.C., May 29. Walte...

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Naval flyers receive decorations. Secretary of the Navy Adams presents Distinguished Flying Cross to four noted Navy flyers. Left to right: Chief Aviation Pilot, Harold I. June, who was decorated for his service with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition: Lieut. Richard F. Whitehead, receiving the decoration for service in connection with the Navy's Alaskan Aerial Expedition in 1926; Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics; Secretary Adams; Lieut. Wallace M. Dillon and Photographer 1st Class William J. Murtha, who also received the medal for their work on the Alaskan expedition

Naval flyers receive decorations. Secretary of the Navy Adams presents...

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Womens City Club flyers at Wash. Airport

Womens City Club flyers at Wash. Airport

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Womens City Club flyers at Wash. Airport

Womens City Club flyers at Wash. Airport

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Womens City Club flyers at Wash. Airport

Womens City Club flyers at Wash. Airport

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Secretary Daniel C. Roper, (dark suit and standing at the center of the table) receives a delegation of Latin American flyers and aviation leaders at the Commerce Department. Secretary Henry Wallace, extreme right, also met the delegation. 10/14/35

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PRESIDENT GREETS STRATO FLYERS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GREETS THE ARMY FLIERS WHO PILOTED THE STRATO BALLOON TO A NEW ALTITUDE RECORD OF 74,000 FEET IN SOUTH DAKOTA ON THE U.S. AIR CORP-NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC FLIGHT. FROM THE LEFT: CAPT. ALBERT STEVENS; GEN. MALIN CRAIG, CHIEF OF STAFF; MAJ. GEN. OSCAR WESTOVER, ACTING CHIEF OF THE AIR CORPS; AND CAPT. ORVAL ANDERSON. CAPTAINS STEVENS AND ANDERSON, WHO MADE THE FLIGHT, PREDICT THAT THE EVENTUAL CEILING IS ABOUT 80,000 FEET, AND SAID THAT ANOTHER 1,000 FEET MIGHT HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THEIR RECORD BY USING HYDROGEN

PRESIDENT GREETS STRATO FLYERS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GREETS THE ARMY FL...

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Radio waves high flyers, Washington, D.C., Oct. 1. Experiments conducted by H.W. Wellex at the radio station of the Carnegie Institution have proven that radio waves travel a distance of 80 miles heavenword before they are reflected back to earth. Traveling like lightning as they ascend in to the ionosphere the radio impulses have to be measured in 10,000ths of second to accurately check the height reached before they return to the radio set

Radio waves high flyers, Washington, D.C., Oct. 1. Experiments conduct...

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Soviet Flyers at White House. Washington D.C June 28. The three Soviet Flyer who conquered the North Pole route between the U.S.S.R. and the United States are shown leaving the White House today after being received by President Roosevelt. In the photograph, left to right: George Baiduckcv, co-pilot; Valeri Chkalov, Pilot; Alexander Beliakov, navigator. 6/28/37

Soviet Flyers at White House. Washington D.C June 28. The three Soviet...

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Transatlantic flyers describe trip to President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., May 15. Dick Merrill (left) and Jack Lambie as they arrived at the White House today to present President Roosevelt with a "first cover" of their coronation flight for the President's stamp collection. The airmail envelope was dated New York city May 8, stamped in London and again stamped in New York on their return yesterday. According to flyers the President seemed much interested in the weather they encountered and the altitude at which they made the flight, 5/15/1937

Transatlantic flyers describe trip to President Roosevelt. Washington,...

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U.S. Flyers win Mackay Award. Washington, D.C., May 8. Nine officers and enlisted men of the U.S. Air Corps were today presented with the Mackay trophy for 1936 as a reward for the heroic flight under unfavorable weather conditions from Langley Field, Virginia, to Allecan, Mich., last August. The trophy, which is awarded annually for the most meritorious air plane flight of the year, was presented to the flyers at Bolling Field, D.C., by Maj. General Malin Craig, U.S. Chief of Staff. In the photograph, left to right: Sergt. Frank B. Connor; Capt. Richard D. Nugent; Lieut. Edwin G. Simenson; Charles F. Horner, President of the National Aeronautic Association; Maj. General Malin Craig; Lieut. Burton W. Armstrong; Lieut. Herbert Morgan, Jr.; and Lieut. William P. Ragsdale, 581937

U.S. Flyers win Mackay Award. Washington, D.C., May 8. Nine officers a...

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War Secretary greets Soviet Polar Flyers. Washington D.C. July 26. The second crew of Soviet Flyers to successfully fly from Moscow to the United States via the North Pole, were received by Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring today. In the photograph, left to right: Sergei Danilin, navigator; Andrei Yumasheff, co-pilot; Secretary woodring; Mikhail Gromoff, pilot; and Constantine A. Oumansky, counselor of the Soviet Embassy in Washington. 7/26/37

War Secretary greets Soviet Polar Flyers. Washington D.C. July 26. The...

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U.S. Flyers win Mackay Award. Washington, D.C., May 8. Nine officers and enlisted men of the U.S. Air Corps were today presented with the Mackay trophy for 1936 as a reward for the heroic flight under unfavorable weather conditions from Langley Field, Virginia, to Allecan, Mich., last August. The trophy, which is awarded annually for the most meritorious air plane flight of the year, was presented to the flyers at Bolling Field, D.C., by Maj. General Malin Craig, U.S. Chief of Staff. In the photograph, left to right: Sergt. Frank B. Connor; Capt. Richard D. Nugent; Lieut. Edwin G. Simenson; Charles F. Horner, President of the National Aeronautic Association; Maj. General Malin Craig; Lieut. Burton W. Armstrong; Lieut. Herbert Morgan, Jr.; and Lieut. William P. Ragsdale, 5/8/1937

U.S. Flyers win Mackay Award. Washington, D.C., May 8. Nine officers a...

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Rubber keeps them flying. This bomber needs thousands of pounds of rubber for the landing wheels and bullet-proof fuel tanks. The flyers and ground crews can do none of the important work entrusted to them unless we keep their planes supplied with the prodigious amounts of rubber they require

Rubber keeps them flying. This bomber needs thousands of pounds of rub...

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Salvage for Victory (retail store seal). Store flyers, explaining the salvage for victory program as it applies to retail stores, and with a pledge card enclosed, are being mailed to every retail shop in the nation. When the pledge card is signed by the shop owner or operator and returned to the Bureau of Industrial Conservation in Washington, the seal is mailed to the retailer for display in his window. Pledge cards may be obtained from state salvage committee or by writing to the bureau directly

Salvage for Victory (retail store seal). Store flyers, explaining the ...

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Student flyers under Civilian Pilot Training Program. Congressional Airport. Rockville, Maryland

Student flyers under Civilian Pilot Training Program. Congressional Ai...

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General Douglas MacArthur, left, congratulates Captain Villamor of the Philippine Air Force, after awarding him the Distinguished Service Cross, December 22, 1941. Captain Villamor was one of the small group of flyers that did heroic service in the Battle of Bataan

General Douglas MacArthur, left, congratulates Captain Villamor of the...

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Production. B-17F heavy bombers. The upper power turret of a new B-17F heavy bomber, just produced at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft. Turrets like this have meant the finish of many Jap and Nazi flyers. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F is a later model B-17, which distinguished itself in action in the South Pacific, over Germany and elsewhere. It is a long range, high altitude, heavy bomber with a crew of seven to nine men and with armament sufficient to defend itself on daylight missions

Production. B-17F heavy bombers. The upper power turret of a new B-17F...

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Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together training planes for Uncle Sam's fighing flyers at a West Coast plant. Here, Mrs. Fern Evans, Pearl Harbor widow, works on a radio bracket for a bomber with a young mechanic. Mrs. Evans, who had no previous mechanical experience when she applied for work in February, now reads blueprints and is able to proceed with various accessory assemblies for bombers with little supervision from leadmen

Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together training planes fo...

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Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Silk parachute cloth is straightened, tentered to width, and finished in an Eastern plant. It will soon be ready for making into parachutes for American flyers

Production. Parachute cloth and shrouds. Silk parachute cloth is strai...

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Kiska, Aleutian Islands. Bombs dropping in train from a United States Army Air Force plane on a Jap objective. Our flyers in Alaska relentlessly pursue their assignment to blast the Japs from their Aleutian holdings. This is an unusually clear shot, for the area thereabouts is fog-bound a good deal of the time

Kiska, Aleutian Islands. Bombs dropping in train from a United States ...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Flyers in winter flying togs

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Flyers eating breakfast at 3:00 a.m. before taking off on dawn patrol

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Flyers waiting for the dawn patrol in the base canteen

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Flyers to take off on patrol

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Flyers purchasing uniforms in the administration office

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Flyers extracting themselves from all-rubber crash suits after a test in the swimming pool

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Testing all-rubber crash suits, known as "zoot suits" to the flyers who are required to wear them all through the winter months

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Music and ping-pong are the favorite diversions of flyers on stand by

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Routine inspection of "Mae West" life-preserving vests worn by flyers on all patrols over water

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Submarine patrol base. Music and ping-pong are the favorite divertissement of flyers on stand by

Bar Harbor, Maine. Submarine patrol base. Music and ping-pong are the ...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Flyers eating breakfast at 3:00 a.m. before taking off on dawn patrol

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Music and ping-pong are the favorite diversions of flyers on stand by

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Routine inspection of "Mae Wests," life-preserving vests worn by flyers on all patrols over water

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Sousse, Tunisia. Archbiship Spellman of New York and flyers of the US Army 9th airforce, touring the street to inspect bomb damage

Sousse, Tunisia. Archbiship Spellman of New York and flyers of the US ...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Dawn patrol flyers and observers making routine reports before starting on patrol

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. An evening in the luxurious summer home rented by four of the flyers for very little in the now deserted Bar Harbor summer resort

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Flyers getting their orders from the intelligence officer before taking off on dawn patrol

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Routine inspection of "Mae West" life preserving vests worn by flyers on all patrols over water

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Flyers extracting themselves from all-rubber crash suits after a test in the swimming pool

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headqaurters of coastal patrol no. 20. Flyers ready to take off on patrol

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Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patrol no. 20. Flyers relaxing in a luxurious summer home which they were able to rent for very little in the deserted Bar Harbor summer resort

Bar Harbor, Maine. Civil Air Patrol base headquarters of coastal patro...

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Washington, D.C. French flyers on a sightseeing tour conducted by the United Service Organizations (USO). They were sent here from North Africa for flight training at the United States Army flight school at Bolling Field. The course lasted thirteen months. They are now being reassigned for duty with French Air Forces overseas

Washington, D.C. French flyers on a sightseeing tour conducted by the ...

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Washington, D.C. A United Service Organization (USO) hostess showing two French flyers the interesting places in and around Washington

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Pan American flyers and ships - Public domain portrait print

Pan American flyers and ships - Public domain portrait print

J288845 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. O. Goldbeck; January 11, 1927. National Photo & News Service, 757 E. Houston St., San Antonio, Texas. Photo no. 882. Printed on image, left to right: "Capt. A... More

Pan American flyers and ships - Public domain portrait print

Pan American flyers and ships - Public domain portrait print

J288845 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; E. O. Goldbeck; January 11, 1927. National Photo & News Service, 757 E. Houston St., San Antonio, Texas. Photo no. 882. Printed on image, left to right: "Capt. A... More