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Fabre, Henri.
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1966
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0.05 Cubic feet (1 folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0933
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Henri Fabre was an engineer trained at l'Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité who made the first seaplane flight in 1910 in an aircraft he designed and built. This collection consists of a manuscript, entitled Premier Naufrage D'Un Hydravion, by Henri Fabre that contains Fabre's account of flights he made in his seaplanes between 1906 and 1910 as well as information about other seaplanes and flights made in them by other pilots through 1911.
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Edo Aircraft Corp
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1925-1970
bulk 1927-1945
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0.45 Cubic feet ((1 legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1995.0054
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of material relating to the EDO Aircraft Corporation, mostly from the 1920s-1940s. The following types of material are included: company correspondence, photographs, brochures, price lists and float specifications, and annual reports.
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Ellyson, Theodore Gordon, 1885-1928
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1911-1914
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0.23 Cubic feet ((1 slim legal document box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0615
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of copies of letters written between Ellyson and others concerning then-Lieutenant Ellyson's aviation experiments of 1911-1914. Many of the letters are directed to Captain Washington I. Chambers and include monthly progress reports and travel and expense statements.
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bulk 1922
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0.05 Cubic Feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1988.0091
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This accession includes a map of the flight and seven photographs. Two photos are of the Fairey IIID Mk. II Seaplane "Lusitânia," Three are of the Fairey IIID Seaplane "Santa Cruz," the airplane which made the flight, and one of those three includes the pilots, Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho and Artur de Sacadura Cabral. The remaining two photos are o...
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Clements, Rell, Jr.
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bulk 1919
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0.11 Cubic Feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2004.0028
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This donation consists of one 8" x 40" black and white candid panoramic image inscribed with the following caption "Mail Plane leaving Hampton Roads, VA for Washington, DC. Feb. 1919." The photograph was taken by Rell Clements, Jr., who was a photographer based in Washington, DC.
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World War I Photographs [Tower Scrapbook]
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bulk 1915-1918
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0.05 Cubic Feet ((1 folder))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.1184
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of 18 images evidently copied from Tower's personal scrapbook which was loaned to the National Air Museum at some point. The images show equipment, aircraft, and personnel of the United States Air Service during World War I. The images include shots from the following bases: Chanute Field, Illinois; Hazelhurst Field, New Yo...
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Carey, Denis H.
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1918-1923
bulk 1918
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2.04 Cubic feet ((9 folders) (2 20x24x3 flatboxes))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0289
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of three scrapbooks and five logbooks belonging to Denis H. Carey. The scrapbooks contain photographs of Royal Navy Air Stations, ships, flying boats, floatplanes and land planes used by the British around 1918. They include approximately 28 different airplanes, 9 different ships and aerial views of various air stations. Th...
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bulk 1913-1923
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0.33 Cubic Feet ((1 box))
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0012
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of a scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine articles on the International Great Lakes Flying Boat Cruise, and other flights, as well as photos, a menu and dinner program, and a few letters.
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Read, A. C. (Albert Cushing), 1887-1967
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1919-1946
bulk May 1919 to June 1919
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1.74 Cubic feet (1 legal document box, three oversized boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0391
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Rear Admiral Albert C. Read (1887-1967) graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1907 and became Naval Aviator #24 in July 1915. In 1919, Read was the commander of the Curtiss NC-4, the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic. The NC-4 covered 2150 nautical miles, from Nova Scotia to the Azores. The NC-4 was joined in the flight by the Curtiss NC-1 and Curtiss NC-3, but both the NC-1 and NC-3 were forced to land in the open sea. This collection consists of the following: black scrapbook containing photographs with US Navy numbers; newspaper front pages; reports; cable grams; signals and dispatches; the NC-4 log; biography of Read; and correspondence.
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United States. Army. Air Service
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1920-1925
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3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.XXXX.0152
- Repository:
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of correspondence, memos, newspaper articles and logbooks concerning the flight.