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TOPIC NUMBER 1: The Golden Age of Aviation: The Davis-Monthan
Airfield Tucson, Arizona 1925-1936
Summary: The Davis-Monthan Airfield, established
as a municipal field on July 26, 1919, preceded the current,
well-known military storage and restoration facility. The
early field was a main east-west fuel and rest stop for notable
Golden Age pilots and their aircraft.
By examining air traffic records from a vintage Airfield
transient log, through personal interviews with pilots who
landed at Tucson in the 1920’s and 30’s, and synthesis
of Golden Age historic events in the southwest, your speaker
spins a ripping yarn that takes us back to a period when aviation
was barely adolescent, and when pilots dead reckoned their
way across a nation on the verge of sprouting wings.
Target audiences for this talk are civil and military aviation
and air transport historians, Golden Age enthusiasts, Arizona
and southwest U.S. citizens, aviation clubs and groups, students
and teachers.
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TOPIC NUMBER 2: Female Pilots of the Golden Age:
The Davis-Monthan Airfield Tucson, Arizona 1925-1936
Summary: The Davis-Monthan Airfield, established
as a municipal field on July 26, 1919, preceded the current,
well-known military storage and restoration facility. The
early field was a significant rest and fuel stop for notable
female pilots of the Golden Age and their aircraft.
Forty-two female pilots made 57 landings at the Airfield
between 1925 and 1936. Nine of their aircraft are still registered
with the FAA. By examining their air traffic records from
a vintage Airfield transient log, through personal interviews
with the current owners of their airplanes, “then”
and “now” images of their aircraft, and synthesis
of Golden Age historic events in the southwest, your speaker
spins a ripping yarn that focuses on female pilots dead reckoning
their way across our nation.
Target audiences for this talk are civil and military aviation
and air transport historians, Golden Age enthusiasts, Arizona
and southwest U.S. citizens, aviation clubs and groups, students
and teachers.
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TOPIC NUMBER 3: Air Transport During the Golden Age:
The Davis-Monthan Aviation Field Tucson, Arizona 1925-1936
Summary: The Davis-Monthan Aviation Field,
established as a municipal airport on July 26, 1919, preceded
the current, well-known military storage and restoration facility.
Several early air transport companies frequented the Field.
Among them American Airlines (the inaugural sleeper service
landed there), Scenic Airways (later Grand Canyon Airlines),
and Standard Air Lines, the subject of this talk.
Although several Standard Air Lines aircraft visited the
Field, three Fokkers landed with sufficient frequency to compute
three measures of economic importance. Load factor, seat-miles
and punctuality are considered. These measures derive from
data handwritten in the transient register maintained at the
Field between 1925 and 1936.
A unique feature of the register is that transport pilots
routinely listed the numbers and names of their passengers
during stops at Tucson. Since many early airline companies
did not retain this information, the register enables us uniquely
to know passenger manifests, and to reconstruct economic efficiencies
that are available nowhere else for these airlines. Histories
of the aircraft and some of their pilots are included in the
talk.
Target audiences for this talk are civil and military aviation
and air transport historians, Golden Age enthusiasts, Arizona
and southwest U.S. citizens, aviation clubs and groups, students
and teachers.
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TOPIC NUMBER 4: WWW.DMAIRFIELD:
The Website of the Davis-Monthan Aviation Field, Tucson,
Arizona February 6, 1925 to November 26, 1936
Summary: The website described in this talk
is about the Golden Age transient Register from the Davis-Monthan
Aviation Field, Tucson, AZ. From the Register stem all types
and directions of United States aeronautical trends and developments.
Moreover, the people, aircraft, places and events recorded
in the Register spawned the intellectual and physical infrastructures
of global aviation technologies, in peace and in war, during
the 20th century.
This talk is a guided tour of the website. It describes the
mechanics of the website, plus it provides historic detail
on the pilots, passengers, airplanes and other factors. It
invites attendees, and site users, to enjoy a better understanding
of the social and technical aspects of Golden Age aviation.
Target audiences for this talk and the website are civil
and military aviation and air transport historians, Golden
Age enthusiasts, Arizona and southwest U.S. citizens, aviation
clubs and groups, students and teachers. This talk works best
with laptop computer access to a high-speed internet service
(broadband: wired or wireless), but such access is not required.
UPLOADED: 06/05 REVISED:01/15/06, 02/14/06, 04/07/11
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