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Captain Norman MacMillan standing, on the left, in this photo, in front of one of the two de Havilland DH-9 bombers that he used for his attempted around-the-world flight in 1922. Geoffrey Malins, the flight photographer, is standing on the right, while the man in the center may be the flight's organizer, Major W. T. Blake, who had purchased the DH-9 bombers, from the Aircraft Disposal Company, for the land-route legs of this flight, which was sponsored by the London Daily News and began at Croydon Airport on May 24, 1922. They reached Calcutta, India, on August 12th and on August 24th, while on their way to Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada, they abandoned their flight, when their Fairey IIIC seaplane, which they had switched to, capsized in the Bay of Bengal, due to a flooded float, after they had been forced to land there, because of engine trouble. |
Lieutenant John A. Macready, who, with Lieutenant Oakley G. Kelly, made the first non-stop transcontinental flight across North America, in 1923, while flying a United States Army Air Service Fokker T-2 monoplane, with serial number AS64233. The 2,650-mile flight started at Roosevelt Field in New York, on May 2nd, and ended at Rockwell Field in San Diego, California, on May 3rd, after 26 hours and 50 minutes, while flying at an average speed of 88.2 mph. They had made two previous attempts, from San Diego, which were abandoned, due to poor weather and engine trouble. Their Fokker T-2 is now in the Smithsonian Institution Museum, in Washington, D.C. |
The Fokker T-2 used by Lieutenant Macready and Lieutenant Kelly on their 1923 transcontinental flight. |
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JOHN
A. MACREADY
ARMY
AIR SERVICE TRANSPORT INTERNATIONAL AIR MEET ST. LOUIS, MO, 1923
MACREADY,
JOHN ARTHUR
THE
FOKKER T-2
From May 27, 1929 to June 25, 1929, Peruvian aviator Carlos Martinez de Pinillos, a pilot, and Peruvian Navy Lieutenant Carlos Zegarra Lanfranco, a navigator, made intercontinental flight, in legs, from New York City to Lima, Peru, using the Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker Peru, that is shown in this photo. They made stops throughout North, Central, and South America, before arriving in Lima, where they were greeted as heroes. This flight was the second part of a flight, in legs, that they had started on December 22, 1928, in South America, and continued, after they had shipped their aircraft, by boat, to New York. This airplane, which had a 220-horsepower Wright J-5 engine, a green fuselage, and a yellow wing, as the Peru, was later destroyed, when Herman Fiurman crashed it. Pinillos was born on January 4, 1895, in Trujillo, Peru, and died on June 23, of 1947. The Carlos Martinez de Pinillos Airport (TRU), in Trujillo, is named after him. |
Jack McGee was exhibition flyer who became a test pilot for the Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation in 1917. He drowned in Cowesset Bay, near East Greenwich, Rhode Island, on June 11, 1918, after he crashed a Gallaudet D-3 seaplane that he was testing. He learned to fly in 1911 and in August 1912 made his first solo flight. This photo shows him in a flying boat. |
A closeup of the photo on the left, showing McGee in the cockpit of his flying boat. |
A 1912 newspaper article about Jack McGee can
be read on this web site at
AVIATOR AND
GIRL PLUNGE FOR LIFE FROM AEROPLANE
Thomas McGoey was an early exhibition flyer, who had immigrated from Ontario, Canada to Grand Forks, North Dakota, in the United States, in 1887. This photo shows the crash of his biplane, which he survived, at Langdon, North Dakota, on August 11, 1911. |