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Your copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register 1925-1936 with all the pilots' signatures and helpful cross-references to pilots and their aircraft is available at the link. 375 pages with black & white photographs and extensive tables
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The Congress of Ghosts (available as eBook) 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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 (available as eBook) 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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Clover Field: The first Century of Aviation in the Golden State (available in paperback) 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. 281 pages, black & white photographs.
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1929
NATIONAL AIR RACES
The 1929 National Air Races (NAR) were held August 24-September 2. It was a complex happening, with flyers from all over the country (and some international) converging in one place, many competing individually in cross-country events that led them to Cleveland, OH. For example, there was a Toronto to Cleveland race; Miami to Cleveland race; a Philadelphia to Cleveland race and an Oakland, CA to Cleveland race.
The home airport was at Cleveland, where additional, local events were held. Through the years, the NAR were important events, because they exposed to the public the newest aviation technologies, flown by the most capable of pilots. Cleveland, OH and Los Angeles, CA were the two major venues for the NAR.
The 1929 NAR was especially important, because it represented the first time female pilots were allowed to compete in the NAR among themselves. Racing with their male counterparts would have to wait, however, until future NAR.
Parks Airport was one of the overnight stops in the 1929 Women's Derby, which ran from Santa Monica, CA to Cleveland. Page 5 of the Register, dated August 24th, holds the signatures of many of the female competitors. The following table, lettered by friend of Parks Airport, Terry Bowden, cites most of them, their airplanes and the final places they held in the competition. Fifteen of these 22 women are signed in the Parks Airport Register. If you hover your cursor over the names of the women and their airplane registration numbers in the table, you will find active hyperlinks to additional information about some of those recorded in the Parks Airport Register.
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As cited in the table above, Louise Thaden was the winner of the Women's Derby. A news article from August 29, 1929 in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat summarized her victory, below.
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The Women's Derby was dubbed the "Powder Puff Derby," reflecting the attitude toward female pilots at the time. An excellent book about the 1929 Women's Derby is this REFERENCE. This book, page 54, offers a photograph of the Women's Derby departure from Clover Field in Santa Monica, CA, and, on page 201, exhibits a photograph of the women on the ground at Parks Airport on August 24th. Further, the Ninety-Nines Web site summarizes the Derby that engaged 19 women for the first time at a National Air Race.
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The men of the 1929 NAR were
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