• Home
• Tags

trimotor

606 photos and 1 illustration tagged trimotor, from 9 members of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos & illustrations taken?

Where were these photos & illustrations tagged?

Show photos2% of these photos & illustrations are geotagged.

Related tags

Tags that often appear on the same photos & illustrations:

• aviation
• aircraft
• airplane
• airliners
• airlines
• ford
• fordtrimotor
• tingoose
• wrightaeronautical
• wright
• wrightwhirlwind
• prattwhitney
• prattwhitneywasp
• stout
• stoutmetalairplanecompany
• wrightj5whirlwind
• wrightj5
• waspradial
• 5at
• wrightr790
• r790
• ford5atbtrimotor
• waspengine
• ford5atb

Members using this tag

• SDASM Archives 580 photos & illustrations
• Nasjonalarkivet (The National Archives of Norway) 8 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 6 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 4 photos & illustrations
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 3 photos & illustrations
• Stockholm Transport Museum 3 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 1 photo / illustration
• Nationaal Archief 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos & illustrations:

Lt. A.F. Hegenberger (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• TVL1970 said:

  Distinguished aviator (then-) Lieutenant Albert F. Hegenberger (US Army Air Corps) aboard the aircraft "Bird of Paradise," an Army Air Corps Atlantic-Fokker C-2 (itself derived from the Fokker F.VIIa/3m tri-motor airliner) (AAC Ser. No. A.C. 26-202) modified for long distance flight. The instrument just next to Hegenberger's left knee is an aperiodic compass (a.k.a. "deadbeat compass"), a compass which did not oscillate as an aircraft changed headings or was affected by turbulence.
  
  Hegenberger and Lt. Lester J. Maitland (US Army Air Corps) would complete the first non-stop flight from the mainland United States (Oakland, CA) to Hawaii (Wheeler Field, Oahu) aboard "Bird of Paradise," from June 28–29, 1927.
  
  A bit odd to come across this photo (and the photo below) in this most recent posted collection of circa-1921 Bain photos, though Hegenberger was involved with developing navigation instruments and techniques for the Air Service at that time. The "Bird of Paradise" wouldn't be procured until the 1926 Fiscal Year.
  
  See also:
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Francis_Hegenberger
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_of_Paradise_(aircraft)
  Here's a photo from the San Diego Air Space Museum's (SDASM) collection on the Flickr Commons of Hegenberger (L) and Maitland (R) next to the aircraft:
  

CF_04-050

from SDASM Archives

• Dan Hughey said:

  This was a Texaco sponsored air race across the U.S.

Maitland's Fokker Tri-motor plane (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Phil Osborne said:

  Indiana Jones and Short Round are in the cock pit.

• Richard Norton said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Maitland_(RAF_officer) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_F.VII

• TVL1970 said:

  US Army Air Corps Atlantic-Fokker C-2 (AC 26-202 / McCook Field Project No. P.463) named "Bird of Paradise." The aircraft that was the first to successfully fly non-stop from Oakland, California to Oahu, Hawaii (Wheeler Field), piloted by Army Air Corps aviators Lester Maitland and Albert Hegenberger in June 1927. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_of_Paradise_(aircraft) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_J._Maitland en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Francis_Hegenberger See also: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/32402473612/

• Melissa (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks, TVL1970 and Richard Norton ! These details are great, and we'll add some to the online record.