airambulance

34 photos tagged airambulance, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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1915

2014

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Stig Jarlevik said:
Up close this looks like a Standard model J or SJ, and it also looks like it also was either destroyed or heavily damaged (a couple of photos back) in a storm. Stig

TVL1970 said:
This is the wreckage of and Army Air Service Curtiss JN-4D Jenny, Air Service serial no. A.S. 3131, at Gerstner Field (11 miles southeast of Lake Charles, Louisiana). This aircraft is believed to be the first U.S. aircraft converted for use as an air ambulance. Maj. Nelson E. Driver (Medical Corps) and (then) Capt. William C. Ocker (Air Service) were responsible for the conversion. The aircraft's rear cockpit was modified for the transport of a patient in a semi-reclining position. The aircraft was also used to transport doctors. See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Ocker

TVL1970 said:
This is a US Army Air Service Curtiss Eagle III (Air Service serial no. A.S. 64243) configured as a flying ambulance. This aircraft would crash on May 28, 1921 (little more than two weeks after this photo was taken, on May 5, 1921), killing all seven aboard, including Medal of Honor recipient Lieut. Col. Archie Miller (US Army Air Service). See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_Eagle
On 28 May 1921, in one of the first major crashes in aviation history, Army Air Service Curtiss Eagle Serial Number 64243, the air ambulance, of the 1st Provisional Air Brigade, crashed during a severe thunderstorm attempting to land at Morgantown, Maryland while returning to Bolling Field, District of Columbia, from Langley Field, Virginia. The pilot, 1st Lt. Stanley M. Ames, and six passengers were killed. Four of the six were Air Service officers and an enlisted man. Two United States congressmen had chosen not to make the flight because of airsickness on the flight from Washington to Langley. The Army's Inspector General conducted an investigation of the crash and theorized that the aircraft stalled when it encountered an updraft at low altitude while trying to clear trees near the unfamiliar field and fell vertically, nose first, into the ground.
See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Miller_(Medal_of_Honor)