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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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PHOEBE FAIRGRAVE OMLIE
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Phoebe Omlie was a prolific signer of our suite of Airfield Registers. Indeed, she signed the Parks Airport Register ten times between May 29, 1929 and June 26, 1931. She flew four different airplanes to St. Louis, with her preferred mount being three Monocoupes (NR8917, NC184K and NC518W). She also arrived in NC9266, a Curtiss Robin. She also landed once as a passenger with Register pilot Lloyd Layne.
She landed for the first time as pilot in command at Parks Airport on Saturday, August 29, 1929. She landed with over a dozen female pilots as a competitor in the 1929 Women's Derby of the National Air Races. She was 26 years old when she participated.
She was already an aggressive and successful air racer. She became an early female aviation mechanic (her certificate, #422, is dated July 31, 1933), and a charter member of The Ninety-Nines. From St. Louis, she and NR8917 were on their way to first place in the class B section of the Derby. Photograph, above, celebrates the finish of the Derby.
Photograph below, from the library of the St. Louis University (SLU), shows her at Parks Field standing behind an array of trophies. I tried to see the engraving on the trophies by working the image in PhotoShop, but nothing was readable. It is not clear if the trophies are hers. The airplane, NC8917 is the one she flew in the Derby.
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She was a favorite citizen of Memphis, TN. She is the subject today of a small display of her artifacts in a glass case at the Memphis International Airport. Besides her pilot certificate (surprisingly, it looks like the original) and assorted photographs, there is a leather fob "mouthpiece" on a swivel that she used to hang by her teeth during wing walking exhibitions.
In addition to her ten landings at St. Louis, she also signed the Clover Field Register twice, and the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register four times. Phoebe Omlie's full biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Many of her memorabilia, including a leather tooth grip she used when hanging by her teeth from an aircraft aloft during exhibition flying, are on exhibit today at the Memphis Airport. Phoebe Omlie flew West July 17, 1975 at age 73.
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