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http://www.cafepress.com/content/global/img/spacer.gifThe 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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NATIONAL AIR RACES, 1936


The 1936 National Air Races (NAR) were held in Los Angeles, CA September 4-8. Two significant events that year were the introduction of the Caudron-Renault racer by Michel Detroyat of France, and the winning of the Bendix cross-country competition by two women, Register pilots Louise Thaden and Blanche Wilcox Noyes. Detroyat beat all comers in the events he entered (e.g. 247.3 MPH in the Greve Trophy Race tabulated below), and it was the first time women had ever won the Bendix Race.

Two articles from Popular Aviation (PA) magazine, November, 1936 are below. They give a popular snapshot of what it was like to be in attendance.

Popular Aviation, November, 1936 (Source: PA)
Popular Aviation, November, 1936 (Source: PA)

Few of the Golden Age National Air Races were without accidents. Two of them appear on the first page of the three-page article below. Register pilot Roscoe Turner crashed his Bendix airplane over New Mexico.

Popular Aviation, November, 1936 (Source: PA)
Popular Aviation, November, 1936 (Source: PA)

The second page of the article includes summary tables of major events and winners. There were many other events. The tables read like a who's who of Register signers. Besides those linked above, among women there were Amelia Earhart, Laura Ingalls, Gladys O'Donnell, Nancy Love, Melba Beard and Henrietta Sumner. And men George Pomeroy, Harold Neumann and Art Chester. Winners walked away with thousands of dollars.

Popular Aviation, November, 1936 (Source: PA)
Popular Aviation, November, 1936 (Source: PA)

More information about the 1936 NAR is available at this 1937 REFERENCE, pp. 204 and 413 (see left sidebar).

Popular Aviation, November, 1936 (Source: PA)
Popular Aviation, November, 1936 (Source: PA)

Register pilot Jack Frye officiated or gave a speech at some point during the events, as pictured below from the San Diego Aerospace Museum. Thanks to site visitor Randall Reynolds for pointing out this image.

Jack Frye Officiating, 1936 National Air Races (Source: SDAM)
Jack Frye Officiating, 1936 National Air Races (Source: SDAM)

 

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