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Your copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register with all the pilots' signatures and helpful cross-references
to pilots and their aircraft is available at the link. Or use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author, while supplies last.
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 The Congress of Ghosts is an anniversary celebration for 2010. It is an historical biography, that celebrates the 5th year online of www.dmairfield.org and the 10th year of effort on the project dedicated to analyze and exhibit the history embodied in the Register of the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ. This book includes over thirty people, aircraft and events that swirled through Tucson between 1925 and 1936. It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders. Order your copy at the link.
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Military Aircraft of the Davis Monthan Register, 1925-1936 is available at the link. This book describes and illustrates with black & white photographs the majority of military aircraft that landed at the Davis-Monthan Airfield between 1925 and 1936. The book includes biographies of some of the pilots who flew the aircraft to Tucson as well as extensive listings of all the pilots and airplanes. Use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author, while supplies last.
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Art Goebel's Own Story by Art Goebel (edited by G.W. Hyatt) is
written in language that expands for us his life as a Golden
Age aviation entrepreneur, who used his aviation exploits to build
a business around his passion. Available as a free download at the link.
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Winners' Viewpoints: The Great 1927 Trans-Pacific Dole Race is available at the link. What was it like to fly from Oakland to Honolulu in a single-engine plane during August 1927? Was the 25,000 dollar prize worth it? Did the resulting fame balance the risk? For the first time ever, this book presents the pilot and navigator's stories written by them within days of their record-setting adventure. Pilot Art Goebel and navigator William V. Davis, Jr. take us with them on the Woolaroc, their orange and blue Travel Air monoplane (NX869) as they enter the hazardous world of Golden Age trans-oceanic air racing.
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Clover Field: The First Century of Aviation in the Golden State. With the 100th anniversary in 2017 of the use of Clover Field as a place to land aircraft in Santa Monica, this book celebrates that use by exploring some of the people and aircraft that made the airport great.
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THE CORNELIUS BURTON COSGROVE, JR.
PHOTOGRAPH AND DOCUMENT COLLECTION
Image Grouping ID: "Josephine Ford" Crew
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The "Josephine
Ford" was one of Admiral Richard Byrd's polar
flight aircraft. It has good presence on this website and
on the web in general. The images below were taken by Burt
Cosgrove when the airplane landed on November 9, 1926.
To see the airplane at Long
Beach, CA a few days later,
click here.
Looking out the cockpit windows at those big radials in
flight must be like watching open-heart surgery!
"Josephine Ford" Crew, Tucson 1926
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"Josephine Ford" Crew, 1926
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Below is the data from the back of this photo identifying
the crew. Left to right we have C.F. Kunkel, the representative
of Daniel Guggenheim, whose financial backing enabled the
tour. Then Donald
Keyhoe, a writer who documented their tour
of the United States, Floyd
Bennett the pilot, and G.O. Noville both in leather.
The gentleman in the white coverall is John McPhail (not
McDonald), Fokker mechanic (his coverall has "Fokker" embroidered
across the front), and, finally, next to him on the far right
in the dark shirt is Bernt Balchen, pilot/co-pilot and navigator.
Bennett and Balchen were Richard Byrd's pilots during his
attempt to reach the North Pole in May 1926. The “Josephine
Ford” was Byrd’s North Pole expedition airplane. Whether
the self-aggrandizing Byrd ever actually made it to the North
Pole with the airplane is in doubt, but that’s another
story.
"Josephine Ford" Crew, data
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Please note: Although I make it a practice
to NOT modify these historic images in PhotoShop, preferring
to let you see them as they are, I did enhance the contrast
of the image of the photo back above for better readability.
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To use the photographs of The Cornelius Burton Cosgrove,
Jr. Collection for any purpose, please contact their
owner:
C.B. Cosgrove, III at 5555 Zuni Rd., SE, Suite 206, Albuquerque,
NM 87106
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