Misc. Aviation
A variety of photos related to aviation in Hawaii in the 1930s.
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- Crop dusting by airplane, Honolulu, 1930s.
- Sgt. Truman P. Taylor, U.S. Air Corps built one of American's smallest planes in the basement of his home in Honolulu. It has a 20 ft wing span, flies 70 mph and climbs 3,000 ft.
- Sgt. Truman P. Taylor, U.S. Air Corps built one of American's smallest planes in the basement of his home in Honolulu. It has a 20 ft wing span, flies 70 mph and climbs 3,000 ft.
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- Sgt. Truman P. Taylor, U.S. Air Corps built one of American's smallest planes in the basement of his home in Honolulu. It has a 20 ft wing span, flies 70 mph and climbs 3,000 ft.
- Sgt. Truman P. Taylor, U.S. Air Corps built one of American's smallest planes in the basement of his home in Honolulu. It has a 20 ft wing span, flies 70 mph and climbs 3,000 ft. Mrs. Taylor sits at the controls.
- Gov. W. R. Farrington standing in cockpit of airplane.
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- Crew of the Guba flying laboratory plane. Plane is owned by Richard Archibold, right, Standard Oil heir, and was flown from San Diego to Honolulu in 18 hrs 8 min, a new record.
- Guba flying laboratory plane. When the plane landed in Honolulu it almost ran afoul of concrete ramp at the end of the seaplane landing. Here are American sailors shoving her nose around from the dock to save a crack up.
- Harold's crash on the Big Island.
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- Ray Shepherd won the model airplane championship at Honolulu. Today he is a junior engineer with Boeing. Ray's scale model plane won first place in the national contest in Detroit. October 19, 1933.
- Mrs. C. P. T. Ulm, the widow of the noted Australian flier who lost his life on a trans-Pacific flight visited Hawaii on May 18, 1935. Left, Governor Poindexter, right W. P. W. Turner, British consul.
- Mrs. Fred Noonan, widow of famous aviator lost with Amelia Earhart, visits Hawaii.