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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH
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Like Pitcairn Register pilot Jimmy Doolittle, few people alive in the 20th century have never heard of Charles Lindbergh. In case you haven't, he was the first aviator to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo. Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight took off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, in May, 1927. It terminated in Paris, France some 33 hours later. Things changed.
The boost to aviation in the United States, and around the world, that Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight gave was immense. Riding on the wave of his record flight, he entered into an aerial tour of the United States that took him to landings in each of the lower 48 states. During the three-month tour, he visited 92 cities, gave 147 speeches, and rode 1,290 miles in parades.
We find him at Willow Grove near the end of his tour, on October 22, 1927. He was flying the "Spirit of St. Louis," NX-211. In fact, neither his aircraft number nor arrival date are cited in the Register, but they are commonly known from documentation.
We are fortunate to have Lindbergh signed into not only the Pitcairn Register, but also the Davis-Monthan Register. He landed at Tucson about a month earlier on Friday, September 23, 1927. He flew the same airplane, was accompanied by the same entourage, during the same nationwide tour.
Charles Lindbergh's full biography is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Please direct your browser there to learn some things that you won't find in the text books, such as what Lindbergh's speech was at each stop in the tour, photographs unique to Delta Mike Airfield, Inc. Web sites, and a link to movie footage of Lindbergh, the "Spirit," and his entourage on the ground in Tucson, AZ.
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