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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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SYDNOR HALL
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Sydnor Hall landed once at Parks Field. He signed the Register Saturday, May 29, 1929 as a competitor in the Gardner Trophy Race. Please direct your browser to the link to learn about the preliminaries leading up to the final race, as well as a tabulation of final results.
Hall placed first in his preliminary heat that originated in Jacksonville, FL and ended at St. Louis on May 29th. He flew the Travel Air he identified as NR6239. Photo, left, is his smile of victory after the preliminary race.
From this article by Terry Bowden (PDF 21 pages, 1.5Mb), "Sydnor Hall posted the third overall fastest qualifying speed (preliminary heat) at 143 mph in his Travel Air D-4000. 'The White Cow' as his plane was nicknamed had the factory 'speedwings' which Hall had modified by filling in the center-section cutout. Other modifications to this plane included a front cockpit enclosure, a N.A.C.A.- type cowling, and a pair of crudely fashioned wheel fairings. Hall, a Saint Louis pilot was a favorite of the local crowd."
The final race began the next day and was a round-trip flight of 468 miles from St. Louis to Indianapolis, IN. Hall placed second in the final. The final was described by Bowden as follows, "It was another 17 minutes before a black speck appeared on the horizon. This turned out to be Sydnor Hall, who had been the last to depart. Hall's elapsed time netted him a speed of 144 mph in his second place effort."
Below, Hall is either entering or exiting his airplane. Mr. Bowden says about the image, "This photo was taken by Jim Peterson on May 29, 1929 at Parks Airfield. This was the day [of] the Final event of the Gardner Trophy Race. ... The original box-camera print came to me from Arthur Berry Ease, Alton, IL. This was in the same collection along with 20 or so other photos from that same day. Berry received the photos from his friend, Mr. Peterson. Both had attended the race."
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Below, a clear profile of Hall's airplane shows the, "crudely fashioned wheel fairings" and the filled top wing center section.
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Below, another view of Hall with NX6239.The airplane is painted in a different livery. The wheel pants are gone, but the filled center section is visible. "Louis" of the citation is unidentified.
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