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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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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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CHOLLAS HEIGHTS GLOBAL NAVAL RADIO TRANSMITTING FACILITY

 

Chollas Heights Entry Gate
Chollas Heights Entry Gate

 

The antenna array is gone today. Several artifacts remain, however. There are three footings that supported the bases, 1, 2 & 3, of the three tower uprights. These are in a preserve as shown below.

Antenna Footings, Chollas Heights, May, 2009
Antenna Footings, Chollas Heights, May, 2009

This photo shows footings 1 & 2, above, more closely. They are massive concrete structures with steel couplings (reddish color) to connect the uprights.

Antenna Footings, Chollas Heights, May, 2009
Antenna Footings, Chollas Heights, May, 2009

 

Disbursed around the site is signage that gives background on the construction and operation of the site. This one describes the history of the facility.

Chollas Heights, Descriptive Signage, May, 2009
Chollas Heights, Descriptive Signage, May, 2009

 

Chollas Heights, Descriptive Signage, May, 2009
Chollas Heights, Descriptive Signage, May, 2009

If you look closely at the center mast above, you'll see what appears to be a smaller cross-bar at the top. This "smaller" cross-bar held the conductors that connected across the tips of all three masts. One of the bars was preserved and, at ground level now, looks like the image below.

Chollas Heights Antenna Cross-Bar, May, 2009
Chollas Heights Antenna Cross-Bar, May, 2009

You can see the approximate location of this antenna array on an old map exhibited at the Charles Cooper Photograph and Document Collection.

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Thanks to Mike Gerow for guiding me to the site of the Chollas Heights facility.

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