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Commercial aviator Johnny Green standing on the Curtiss flying boat Sunshine, in St. Petersburg, Florida, on March 21, 1921. This flying boat was used by Cuban aviator Augustin Parla, on May 29, 1919, to make the first commercial flight from Cuba to the United States of America. On May 20, 1919, Johnny Green and Augustin Parla made the first commercial flight in Cuba. |
Johnny Green, sitting on the right, and another man in the Curtiss flying boat Betty, in St. Petersburg, Florida, during 1916. |
JOHNNY GREEN
AUGUSTIN PARLA
PEOPLES
Ben S. Gregory was a barnstormer and commercial aviator from Kansas City, Missouri, who was born in 1889 and died in 1974. He flew this Ford Tri-motor AT-4-B, with aircraft identification number NC5093, during the 1930's. Rides on this airplane, which says "Fly with Ben" on its side, were offered for 50 cents and it could hold fourteen passengers. This particular aircraft was also flown by Clyde Ice, another commercial aviator, and it was used, in 1928, for nighttime advertising, under the name "Ship of Flame", which had the words "The Ship from Mars" painted on its sides. |
The Dornier Wal flying boat Groenland Wal (Greenland Whale), with aircraft identification number D-2053, that was used by the German aviator Wolfgang von Gronau, and his three crewmen, Fritz Albrecht, Franz Hack, and Ghert von Roth, for an around-the-world flight, from July 21st to November 10th, 1932. They started in List, on Sylt island, in Germany, and traveled westward, to Iceland, Greenland, Canada, the United States of America, Siberia, Japan, China, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Malacca, Burma, India, Iran, Iraq, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, and Friedrichshafen, Germany. |
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"WAL"
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WAL
"WAL"
(WHALE) FLYING BOAT BY DORNIER
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DO-J II GREENLAND D-2053
American flyers Ross Hadley and John E. Pratt in front of their Stearman C3B, which they had flown in India, in 1931. In 1938, Ross Hadley flew a Beechcraft D-17 Staggerwing in the Bendix air race from Los Angeles, California to Cleveland, Ohio. |
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Mary Hays Haizlip, shown in this photo, on the left, with an unknown aviatrix, at the National Air Races, in Cleveland, Ohio, was an air racing flyer and the second woman to receive a commercial pilot's license in the United States. She finished seventh in the 1929 women's trancontinental air race, from Santa Monica, California to Cleveland and, in 1932, set a women's speed record, while flying a Wedell-Williams racer. She was also a test pilot for American Eagle, Buhl Aircraft, and Spartan Aircraft, and her husband was James Haizlip, another air racing flyer, who she married after taking flying lessons from him. She was born in 1910 and died in 1997. |
The experimental six-engine Witteman-Lewis XNBL-1 Barling Bomber triplane was designed by Walter Barling for the United States Army and was the largest aircraft in the world, when it first flew on August 23, 1922, by Lieutenant Harold R. Harris. Its poor performance, however, led to its being destroyed in 1928. |
Another photo of the Barling Bomber. Walter Barling had, previously, designed the Tarrant Tabor triplane bomber, which was powered by six Napier Lion engines, for the Royal Air Force, in 1919, but it nosed over on its only attempted flight, on May 26, 1919, after the two engines mounted between its upper wings were started, killing three of its five crewmembers, including its two pilots. The Barling Bomber was similar in design to the Tarrant Tabor, but was smaller in size and had all of its six engines mounted between its lower wings. |
What may be a photo of the experimental six-engine Witteman-Lewis XNBL-1 Barling Bomber triplane at the 1923 Saint Louis International Air Meet. The wing of a United States Army Fokker T-2 is to the left of it. The Barling Bomber was scheduled to be demonstrated on Wednesday, October 3rd, at 4:00 p.m., during the air meet, and the Fokker T-2 was flown by United States Army Lieutenant H. G. Crocker in the 1923 Merchant's Exchange Trophy Race, which was held, during the air meet, on Tuesday, October 2nd, at 2:00 p.m. |
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R. HARRIS
CHARLES
R. WITTEMAN
WITTEMAN-LEWS
XNBL-1 BARLING BOMBER
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An aircraft designer and exhibition flyer, Edward Baird Heath acquired the Bates Aeroplane Company, in 1912, and renamed it the Heath Aircraft Company. It produced several aircraft designs, including this Heath Model 2B Tractor Biplane, with a 6-cylinder Anzani engine, and some of these won national air races, during the 1920's. He founded a flying school, to provide instruction to those purchasing his aircraft, and was killed in the crash of one of his airplanes, during a test flight, on February 1, 1931, after which his company was reorganized as the International Aircraft Corporation. |
EDWARD B. HEATH
THE HEATH
STORY
1928 HEATH SUPER
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