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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-...

See: www.oocities.org/fort_tilden/rnas.html May 5, 1919 At 4:10 p.m., HS1 seaplane A-1692 with pilot Ensign Hugh Jacob Adams and assistant pilot Chief Machinists Mate Harlod B. Corey fell into a tail spin and landed on a hydrogen tank. Both were killed instantly.

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"

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

Thanks TVL1970 and Art Siegel. We'll add this information to this record and the others related to this flight.