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18_000311_2 from SDASM Archives uploaded September 2024
10_0029064 SDASM Image from SDASM Archives uploaded June 2023
Landing mark, Bolling field (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded October 2018
Gen. Wm. Mitchell (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded October 2018
Potomac Park, Wash., D.C. (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded June 2018
harry young collection image from SDASM Archives uploaded April 2018
harry young collection image from SDASM Archives uploaded April 2018
harry young collection image from SDASM Archives uploaded April 2018
harry young collection image from SDASM Archives uploaded April 2018
harry young collection image from SDASM Archives uploaded April 2018
harry young collection image from SDASM Archives uploaded April 2018
sdasm image from SDASM Archives uploaded June 2017
sdasm image from SDASM Archives uploaded June 2017
sdasm image from SDASM Archives uploaded June 2017
sdasm image from SDASM Archives uploaded June 2017
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Identified! [Paragon adjustable and reversible aircraft propeller created by Spencer Heath and tested on October 11, 1922, Bolling Field, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)
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- oldoinyo said:
- Christian Shepherd said:
- Ross said:
- TVL1970 said:
- Art Siegel said:
Landing mark, Bolling field (LOC)
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TVL1970 said:
This same photo appears on Page 376 of the March 21, 1921 issue of Aviation and Aircraft Journal, Vol. X. No. 12, with the following caption:
THE FIRST LINK IN THE AMERICAN MODEL AIRWAY; DC 1, THE MARKER FOR WASHINGTON, D.C. - Photo U.S. Army Air Service
The accompanying story begins on that page, reads:
Opening Exercises of America's First Airway
The inauguration exercises in connection with the preparation of the model American Airway which is to extend from Washington, D.C., to Dayton, Ohio, via Moundsville, West Virginia, and Columbus, Ohio took place at Bolling Field, Anacostia, D.C., on Feb. 12, 1921.
There were approximately one thousand Boy Scouts there. The Boy Scout organization is to assist the U.S. Army Air Service in the preparation of this route by clearing the landing fields selected and establishing proper identification markers on them. There were a number of very distinguished people present, prominent among them were Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, Mr. Huston Thompson, Mr. Isaac Gans, Mr. Edward D. Shaw, Mr. A.G. Batchelder and others.
After the huge marker "D.C. 1" had been laid and whitewashed by the Boy Scouts a talk on what air transportation means now and in the future and how the airways of the United States serve the airplane just as the road ways serve the automobile was given by Brig. Gen. William Mitchell. . . .
This photo, also just posted by the LoC, of General William "Billy" Mitchell (US Army Air Service), would also seem to tie in to the aforementioned event. Note the speaking platform on the berm in the distance in the photo above, and the photo of Mitchell below:
Here's more on the event and the "Model Airway," along with another photo of Mitchell:
AvStop.com - Scouts Lay Cornerstone for Model Airway
Ray Wagner Collection Image
from SDASM Archives
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Veedubber79 said:
The four expedition DWCs ("Boston", "Chicago", "New Orleans" & "Seattle") departed Sand Point (near Seattle), Washington (USA) on 6 April 1924. "Seattle" (s/n 23-1229) only made it as far as Alaska before crashing beyond repair on 30 Apr 24, while "Boston" (s/n 23-1231) was abandoned in the Atlantic near the Faroe Islands. "Chicago" (s/n 23-1230) and "New Orleans" (s/n 23-1232) completed the global expedition on 28 September 1924.
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Veedubber79 said:
The third a/c pictured here is "Boston II", the re-christened prototype (s/n 23-1210) DWC which joined the two surviving a/c on the final leg of their journey across the US in September 1924.
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Veedubber79 said:
"Chicago" (restored in 1974) is in the Smithonian's A&SM in Washington D.C., while "New Orleans" was displayed in the NMUSAF from 1957 until 2005; more recently, it became part of the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, CA. The "Seattle" wreckage was recovered and is now displayed hanging from the ceiling in the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum in Anchorage, AK.