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Looks like crew of January, 1919 Rockaway to Key West flight, see

Title: Dirigible C-1 crew Caption: Of flight from New York to Key West, 1450 miles, 12 January 1919. Description: Catalog #: NH 53303 Copyright Owner: Naval History and Heritage Command Original Creator: Original Date: Sun, Jan 12, 1919 www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerica... Records Made With Goodyear Balloons "D-28: Navy C-1 Rockaway Beach to Key West Fla via Hampton Roads Va and Brunswick Ga. Jan 12 15 1919 Total including stops 1,560 mi " books.google.com/books?id=ZNo0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT27&lp... Captain was S.V. Parker, head of the Rockaway Naval Air Station chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85034322/1919-03-15/ed-...

The Pensacola journal., March 16, 1919, SECOND SECTION, Page 17, top left chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87062268/1919-03-16/ed-... reported that a flight arranged by Lieut. W. L. Richardson, a naval photographer, had established a record in flying the 300 miles from Hampton Roads (across the James River from Norfolk, Virginia) to "the Rockaway station" in 270 minutes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Rockaway

See also: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/35933304221/

Thanks swanq and TVL1970. We'll add this information and the type of plane to this photos catalog record and the one taken at the same time.

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