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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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LAIRD LC-RJ200 NR7087
This notable airplane was recorded one time in the Register at East St. Louis, on Wednesday, May 29, 1929. It was flown, apparently solo, by Charles W. "Speed" Holman, whose nickname alludes to his experience with motorcycles, as well as accomplishments with NR7087 (S/N 150&167). Holman left little in the way of an itinerary in the Register, but his itinerary was clarified at his biography link. He did write "Parks Airport" in the destination column. That was because he was a competitor in the Gardner Trophy Race. His landing this day represented his first-place finish in heat #3 of the race preliminaries that he flew from Fargo, ND. He said the next day, "It was an easy trip, I pulled her wide open and kept her there all the way."
The photograph of NX7087, below, with Holman standing alongside, was published in Aeronautical Industry, June 1, 1929, just two days after he landed at Parks Airport. The photo could have been snapped at Parks earlier. Indeed, the terrain looks very similar to the terrain today, as pictured at the Airport's link, above.
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Holman and this airplane crashed at Omaha, NB May 17, 1931. The airplane was destroyed and Holman was killed. Details were published in his New York Times obituary from May 18, 1931 exhibited on his biography page.
At least fifteen other examples of Laird aircraft landed across five of the six airfields that are the focus of the Delta Mike Airfield, Inc. suite of Web sites. I'm looking for photographs of NR/NX7087. If you have some you would like to share, please let me KNOW.
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