navalairstationrockaway

12 photos tagged navalairstationrockaway, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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1915

2013

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TVL1970 said:
This and the photo below, among this latest group of LOC Bain photos to be posted, is a photo of a US Navy C-Class blimp. www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/36025809866/ See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-class_blimp For comparison purposes, see also this newsreel footage of C-Class blimps posted on YouTube by CriticalPast: YouTube - Critical Past: "U.S. Navy C-class airships at Fort Tilden, New York HD Stock Footage"
Art Siegel said:
Captioned as "U.S. Navy Dirigible C-1 ready to start on a 1, 500 mile flight from Rockaway Beach, Long Island to Key West Florida." www.pinterest.com/pin/518336238333727973 upper left image
Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks TVL1970 and Art Siegel. We'll add this information to this record and the others related to this flight.

TVL1970 said:
This is a photo of US Navy photographer Lt. Walter L. Richardson and crew of a Curtiss F5L aircraft, after the completion of a flight from Hampton Roads, Virginia to Far Rockaway Naval Air Station in March 1919. See: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1919-03-16/ed-... www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/31788341436/ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/35933304221/

Stig Jarlevik said:
As far as I know the incident which damaged NC-1 (A-2291) was in March 1919 (a brisk gale was the culprit...) Stig