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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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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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GEORGE HERWAIN "Buck" MILLER
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George Miller was born May 28, 1905. He visited once at Willow Grove, as a young man on Sunday, August 3, 1930. Based at Bluefield, WV, he flew in the airplane he identified as NC902W, a Stinson SM-8A (S/N 4077). He was apparently solo. The Bluefield, WV airport no longer exists, but it is memoralized at the link. There are photographs of the early airfield at the link. None of the people resemble Miller (compare photos from the Davis-Monthan link, below). Miller entered in the Register no information about his destination or purpose for his flight.
Interestingly, the registration for NC902W was cancelled November 24, 1930, just a few months after Miller brought it through Willow Grove. I do no know why it was cancelled. If you can fill in the blanks, please let me KNOW.
About the time of his landing, Miller was the manager of the Bluefield Airport, as documented in the article, right, from the April 4, 1931 Bluefield Daily Telegraph. The reported air tour was a big deal for Bluefield, as air tours were nationally, as support for the developing aeronautical infrastructure.
Below is Miller's draft registration for WWII. The other side of this card tells us he was 5'11," weighed 155 pounds, and had a scar over his right eye. The card was signed and dated October 16, 1940.
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His brother, T. Guy, was an aviation personality in his own right. Two years older than Buck, Guy was the president and general manager of Wings Airport in Blue Bell, PA. In the 1930s he was a test pilot for Kellett Autogiro, and a sales manager for Pitcairn Autogiro Corp. 1933-1936. Guy learned to fly at Pitcairn Field in 1927 and, as of 1940, was a transport pilot with instrument rating. The brothers followed similar career paths.
Miller flew west in December, 1925. His obituary, below, appeared in the Philadelphia Enquirer, December 25, 1985.
George H. "Buck" Miller, 80, a retired aviator and test pilot, died Sunday in Vero Beach, Fla., where he had lived for about 10 years. He formerly lived in Bryn Mawr. Mr. Miller, who began flying in 1928, made a cross-country flight in 1931 in a rotary-blade craft called an autogyro. Later he was a pioneer test pilot for helicopter manufacturers in Philadelphia, St. Louis and Richmond, Va. |
George Miller also landed twice at the Davis-Monthan Airfield and appeared later in that Register on March 16, 1932 and April 14, 1932. At this last landing, Miller flew the Kellett K-3 autogiro, NC12691. This could be the cross-country flight alluded to in his obituary (dated as 1931 in the article). His link leads to additional biographical material, and photographs, on that Web site. Most of that information describes his interesting later life.
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