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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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OPAL KUNZ
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Opal Kunz received her pilot’s license June 7, 1929. Not two months later we find her landing at Parks Airport on Saturday, August 24, 1929. She was among a group of woment who landed at about the same time as competitors in the Women's Derby of the 1929 National Air Races (NAR). With two months of flying experience, she was piloting an unidentified new Travel Air. I say "new" Travel Air, because she had crashed one in New Jersey later in June.
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Six years earlier, Opal Logan Giberson married Dr. George Frederick Kunz on May 15, 1923. He was a Tiffany vice-president and gem expert, and a man over twice her age. Their marriage was annulled November 21, 1929, but they lived together amicably until his death on July 1, 1932. At that time she inherited over $1 million. She was a charter member of the Ninety-Nines, and Tiffany was commissioned, via Opal's husband, to design and produce the handsome "99" logo pin, right, worn by all members of the Ninety-Nines to this day.
Besides her landing at St. Louis, Opal Kunz also landed once and signed the Register of the Davis-Monthan Airfield on April 3-4, 1931 (she didn't enter the date). She was eastbound from Yuma, AZ to El Paso, TX. She identified neither her airplane or if she was carrying passengers. Her full biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Please direct your browser there for additional photographs and links. I do not know when she was born. Opal Kunz passed away in 1967.
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