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Early Aviation in Long Beach

English · Hardback

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By 1920, when Amelia Earhart attended Earl S. Daugherty's air circus and then took her first airplane ride with Long Beach Poly High School graduate Frank Hawks, Long Beach was already a key part of the golden age of aviation. Balloonists had parachuted onto the city's beaches in 1905 near the Pine Avenue Pier, and stunt pilots such as Frank Stites took off and landed on its sands in 1908. The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce sponsored the altitude contest won by Arch Hoxsey in the second Los Angeles Air Meet in 1910. Cal Rodgers ended the first transcontinental flight in the water near Linden Avenue on December 10, 1911. A former Army Air Corps flight instructor, Earl Daugherty was known as the "greatest stunt pilot" and owned the area's first non-beach airfield. This volume offers glimpses of early aviation at one of its core development locales, including photographs never before published of Earhart's flight instructor, John G. Montijo.

Product details

Authors Gerrie Schipske
Publisher Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 09.09.2009
 
EAN 9781531646424
ISBN 978-1-5316-4642-4
No. of pages 130
Dimensions 175 mm x 250 mm x 12 mm
Weight 417 g
Subjects Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Aircraft, space travel
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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