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He is shaking hands with Colonel Richard Bernard Barnitz (1891-1960), the manager of the Los Angeles airport. The image was taken on August 21, 1930 when Eddie set the east-to-west junior transcontinental airspeed record. The sticker on the airplane between them says "Richfield Aviation Gasoline". Eddie August Henry Schneider (October 20, 1911 – December 23, 1940) set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930. His plane was a Cessna Model AW with a Warner-Scarab engine, one of only 48 built, that he called "The Kangaroo". He set the east-to-west, then the west-to-east, and the combined round trip record. He was the youngest certificated pilot in the United States, and the youngest certified airplane mechanic. He was a pilot in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee Squadron. He died in an airplane crash in 1940 while training another pilot, when a US Navy bomber clipped his plane's tail at Floyd Bennett Field. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_August_Schneider He is a cousin of mine from the Norwegian side of my family. His mother was from Farsund, Norway. I have been collecting information on him and most of what you come across on the Internet is from me. I wrote his entry for Wikipedia and Familypedia.

A bit about the train. -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_gun en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Electric I started an article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Coast_Defense_Train Please note that all these photos were published in Scientific American.

Other Bain/LOC photos of the Schneider Coast Defence Train: Note that Bain's captions on these photos employ the British spelling of "defence." Did he not know how to spell American?

This might be Eli the Bearded's link (his is broken): www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/odfort.Html

Schneider railway gun, a Bain/LOC photo posted to Flickr on November 26, 2010:

a french Schneider-Tank