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Francis & Martin Bomber (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • TVL1970 said:
    Aviator Roy N. Francis next to the modified Martin MB-1 Bomber (Martin GMB-TA or "Martin GMT"; Air Service Serial No. A.S. 62949, Martin construction no. c/n 8) that he was to fly in an attempt of a one-stop (at North Platte, Nebraska) flight between New York and San Francisco in the summer of 1919. Unfortunately, on July 24, 1919, five days prior to the planned start of the flight, the aircraft was destroyed (see photo on Page 21 of cited journal below) when the hanger it was in at Hazelhurst Field (later Roosevelt Field), Mineola, was collapsed by a "cyclone, accompanyied by lightning" on that date. See: "U.S. Air Service," September 1919, "Coastal and Transcontinental Flights," Pages 21-22. For the details on the aircraft, see: Glenn L. Martin Aviation Museum - Martin Aircraft Specifications (1998)
  • Art Siegel said:
    ROY NEWELL FRANCIS
    1886-1952
    see also Francis, Roy N.
    and
    www.earlyaviators.com/efrancis.htm
  • Anne (LOC P&P) said:
    TVL1970 and Art Siegel: Thanks. We will include some of your details next time we update the description.
  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    The New York Times in a page one story reported the cyclone that destroyed the Martin Bomber occurred on July 28, 1919, and the single stop transcontinental flight was to start four days later on August 1, 1919. [1] The Times references the July 24, 1919, date as the day "An army bombing plane [Martin Bomber] carrying a crew of five, commanded by Lieut. Col. R.S. Hartz, left the ground here [Washington, DC] at 10 A.M. on the first leg of a flight of nearly 8,000 miles around the rim of the country." [2]

Bilstein_00735 Martin MB bomber with company executives

from SDASM Archives

  • TVL1970 said:
    Glenn L. Martin is second from the right side of the frame. First from right is Donald W. Douglas, Sr., chief designer of the Martin MB bomber in the background.

CF_07-0067 Per John Underwood Douglas World Cruiser probably Eric Springer on left

from SDASM Archives

  • TVL1970 said:
    The aviator on the left side of the frame is (then) Lieut. Erik Henning Nelson (USAAS), pilot of Douglas World Cruiser No. 4 "New Orleans." There are several photos of him throughout the SDASM's collection on Flickr. See: dmairfield.com/people/nelson_eh/index.html Leaning on the wing on the right side of the frame is Lieut. "Smiling" Jack Harding (USAAS), Nelson's co-pilot aboard "New Orleans." See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_aerial_circumnavigation