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• aviation
• airplane
• aircraft
• biplane
• libraryofcongress
• aviators
• curtiss
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• testpilot
• glenncurtiss
• pilot
• airmail
• curtisspusher
• navalaviation
• unitedstatesnavy
• usn
• airmailpilot
• flight
• hoover
• robertandersonbobhoover
• robertandersonhoover
• rabobhoover
• robertahoover
• roberthoover

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• SDASM Archives 7,064 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 407 photos & illustrations
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 117 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 33 photos & illustrations
• NASA on The Commons 16 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 13 photos & illustrations
• Université de Caen Normandie 11 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 9 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 9 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 6 photos & illustrations
• IWM Collections 6 photos & illustrations
• Australian War Memorial collection 5 photos & illustrations

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air mail pioneer image

from SDASM Archives

• TVL1970 said:

  Fighter Ace, Air Mail Pilot, and later Rear Admiral (USNR) Kenneth R. Unger (1898-1979). See: postalmuseum.si.edu/unger-kenneth-russell en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Russell_Unger

Standing left to right alongside of Bell XS-1 are: Captain Charles E. Yeager, Major Gus Lundquist and Captain James Fitzgerald (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Terrence E McKnight said:

  Great pic. Haven’t seen this one in the Glamorous Glennis lineup before! 👍

• Hanna (LOC P&P) said:

  On September 18, 1947, the National Security Act of 1947 created the United States Air Force (USAF) as a separate military branch. The USAF traces its roots to the early 1900s and the United States Army and the Aeronautical Division of the Signal Corps. One month later, Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager would break the sound barrier flying the Bell X-1, which he named "Glamourous Glennis" after his wife.

• CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:

  I met Chuck Yeager in the wee hours of the morning at Burbank Airport, in an FBO. He and I were the only two people there. That was Saturday, February 8, 1986, when he piloted a Piper Cheyenne 400 LS from Burbank Airport to La Guardia Airport in New York in 5 hours, 23 minutes. The man I met was a very approachable, humble guy. I wished him luck, as we parted.

Hamilton in Aeroplane (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_K._Hamilton
  'Charles Keeney Hamilton (May 30, 1885 – January 22, 1914) was an American pioneer aviator nicknamed the "crazy man of the air". He was, in the words of the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission, "known for his dangerous dives, spectacular crashes, extensive reconstructive surgeries, and ever present cigarette" and was "frequently drunk". He survived more than 60 crashes.'
  
  Could be the biplane in 1910 photo
  digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/...

• Seuss. said:

  The plane is the Curtiss No. 2 "Reims Racer" in which Glenn Curtiss won the 1909 Gordon Bennett Cup. He sold the plane to Hamilton and put him under contract in January 1910. But by August 1910, after missed payments and disagreements about prize money he foreclosed and reclaimed the plane. That gives a nice 8 month window to date the photo.
  
  Who wore it better?
  

• Jon (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks swanq and Seuss.. We'll update the catalog record.
  
  This photo probably goes with another Bain photo, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014688251/, as it has the same first Bain number, 2039.