Correspondence 1983

Photographs (1 of 3) 1927

Mechanics dismantling the engine of the Spirit of St. Louis , Paris 1927

Mechanics draining the oil from the engine of the "Spirit of St. Louis", Paris 1927

H. Pagny (L), Engineer in charge of the Aviation Division of the Vacuum Oil Company S.A.F., and Capt. Cartier (R) of the 34th Air Regiment examining the oil filter of the Spirit of St. Louis 1927

H. Pagny (L), Engineer in charge of the Aviation Division of the Vacuum Oil Company S.A.F., and Capt. Cartier (R) of the 34th Air Regiment examining the oil filter of the Spirit of St. Louis 1927

Photographs (2 of 3) 1927

Charles A. Lindbergh (center), watching the dismantling of the engine of the Spirit of St. Louis, Paris 1927

View of the fuselage of the Spirit of St. Louis after removal of the fabric, Paris 1927

View of the cockpit and instrument panel of the Spirit of St. Louis after removal of the fuselage fabric, Paris 1927

View of the instrument panel of the Spirit of St. Louis after removal of the fuselage fabric, Paris 1927

Photographs (3 of 3) 1927

(L to R) Charles A. Lindbergh, Louis Bleriot, Herrick, Paris 1927

Group photograph, standing: Charles A. Lindbergh (front row, 3rd from left); Herrick (front row, 2nd from left); Louis Bleriot (front row, extreme right), Paris 1927

Group photograph, seated and standing: Charles A. Lindbergh (front row, 2nd from right) 1927

Group photograph: 8 men and 3 women, all unidentified, pose on airfield, Paris 1927

Group of men standing on airfield, man on extreme right in flight suit, immediately prior or after Charles A. Lindbergh's landing, Paris 1927

Copy negatives circa 1992

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (1 of 19)

[1/10] Amelia Earhart 1928

[3/14] Official Program of the Air Rodeo at Glendale Airport 1923 March 17

[4/17] Seaplane Friendship taking off 1928 June

[5/19]. View from the passenger liner America of Amelia Earhart 'bombing' the ship with messages dropped in paper bags weighted with oranges from her seaplane Friendship 1928 June

[6/19] Passenger liner America photographed by Amelia Earhart through the open hatch in the bottom of Friendship's fuselage 1928 June

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (2 of 19)

[8/27] Print of the first human ascent in a hydrogen balloon by Professor Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Noel Robert, from the garden of the Tuilleries, Paris, December 1, 1783 undated

[11/29] Wright Brothers family home, Dayton, Ohio [now in the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan] circa 1975

[12/29] Wright Brothers cycle shop, Dayton, Ohio [now in the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan] circa 1975

[14/30] First powered flight: Wright brothers' plane leaves the ground at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with Orville at the controls and Wilbur running alongside 1903 December 17

[19/35] Would-be aviators built airplanes in barns and stables during the years following the Wright brothers' historic flight. This one crashed on its first takeoff attempt and never flew undated

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (3 of 19)

[20/35] French aviator Rene Simon toured the Midwest with his Bleriot monoplane, giving exhibition flights 1911

[22/38] Lawrence Bell (standing, L) and Grover Bell (seated, R) with the plane they jointly owned 1912

[24/41] Lincoln Beachey in Curtiss biplane races Barney Oldfield in automobile circa 1910-1913

[25/43] Christening of the biplane in which Lincoln Beachey was killed at San Francisco on March 14, 1915

[33/51] Early Farman biplane on the beach in California circa 1910

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (4 of 19)

[34/54 (recte 53)] Stuntman hanging from lower wing section of biplane circa 1920

[35/56 (recte 54)] Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" in a field near South Bend, Indiana 1920 June

[36/55] Barnstormers pose in front of their Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" with a businessman, in a field near South Bend, Indiana, admired by a crowd of young children 1920 June

[38/56] Barnstormer (R) and passenger (L) in front of Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny", in a field near South Bend, Indiana 1920 June

[39/57] Two barnstormers (L) and male and female passenger (R) in front of Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" in a field near South Bend, Indiana 1920 June

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (5 of 19)

[40/58] Stunt man balanced on his head on the nose of biplane in flight circa 1920-1930

[42/59] Stunt man hangs by his teeth from a rope ladder suspended from a biplane in flight circa 1920-1930

[41/60] Stuntmen Spider Matlock (L) and Fronty Nichols (R) hang from wings of biplane piloted by Don MacDougall and attempt to grab hats held by two men on the ground 1924

[43/60] Children admire Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" in a field near South Bend, Indiana 1920 June

[44/61] Triplane designed by Catron and Fisk 1921

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (6 of 19)

[45/62] In this first midair refueling, a wingwalker with a five-gallon can of gasoline strapped on his back climbs from the lower plane to the upper one and pours the fuel into its tank circa 1920-1930

[46/63] Three wingwalkers perform simultaneously on the top wing of a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" in the air above Los Angeles circa 1920-1930

[47/64] Pilot Earl Daugherty with stuntwoman Gladys Ingle standing on the upper wing, flies over amusement park in Long Beach, California 1920

[48/...] James Doolittle (2nd from left), with three unidentified men, after he led the American bomber raid on Tokyo 1942

[50/66] Clyde Pangborn falls from a ladder hanging from a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" piloted by Ralph Reed while attempting to transfer to the Jenny from a speeding car, on a beach near San Diego, California 1920

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (7 of 19)

[51/68] Wingwalker _______ Campbell waves from the top wing of Frank Clarke's Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" circa 1920-1930

[52/69] Wingwalker Leigh Sellers standing on tail of Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" in flight circa 1920-1930

[53/70] With no one in the cockpit, the pilot steers this barnstorming plane in the air by pulling control wires from the tail, while his partner hangs from a wing strut circa 1920-1930

[54/71] "Director Al Christie in straw hat instructs performers during the filming of an airplane scene in the silent film He Married His Wife 1919

[55/72] Stunt pilot Frank Clarke takes off from the roof of a 12-story building [possibly the Los Angeles Railway Building] in downtown Los Angeles in a silent movie thriller circa 1920

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (8 of 19)

[56/75] Side view of the Martin twin-motored 800 H.P. bombing plane, The Glenn L. Martin Company, Cleveland, Ohio 1919 June 2

[57/75] Helmeted pilot and two friends standing beside 1919 Martin bomber circa 1919

[58/76] General Billy Mitchell leads the bombers that sink the captured German battleship Ostfriesland 1921

[59/77] General Billy Mitchell inspects a new type of plane with the cockpit enclosed circa 1920-1925

[61/80] Army Air Service World Cruiser Chicago on round-the-world flight 1924

[62/82] Two views of the U.S. Air Service (Douglas World Cruiser) airplanes that made the first flight around the world, pulled up on foreign beaches for inspection 1924

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (9 of 19)

[65/89] First airmail plane (Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny") takes off from Washington, DC, for Philadelphia, while President Woodrow Wilson watches 1918 May 15

[67/93] Top image: "Serious Business: Grim-visaged National Air Transport (NAT) employees supervise the loading of sacks of U.S. mail onto a plane at Hadley Airport near New Brunswick, N.J. in 1927. Note the parachute-laden pilot." Bottom image: "Today the mail carried by wide-bodied aircraft is placed into containers which are lifted by loaders and rolled onto the lower decks of the aircraft." 1927, 1977

[69/96] 1926 Swallow biplane (airmail plane) and United Air Lines 737 jet airliner circa 1976

[70/97] United Air Lines Boeing 40A 1927

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (10 of 19)

[71/99] "50 Years of Transcontinental Service"; map showing route of first transcontinental air service 1927, 1977

[72/100] American Airlines Ford Tri-Motor [affectionately known as the "Tin Goose"] 1963

[73/101] American Airlines Mail Plane 1935

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (11 of 19)

[75/106] A. Roy Knabenshue taking off in his airship from the west side of Central Park, New York City 1905 August 2

[76/106] Airship California Arrow in Flight at the St. Louis Fair 1898

[86/112] "Circling the Capitol Dome in an Air-Ship" 1906 June 30

[87/114] Walter Wellman's balloon America about to make a forced landing in the sea after its transatlantic attempt failed, photograph from the rescue ship Trent 1910 October

[88/116] Biplane alongside U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah above Los Angeles 1924

[93/123] Travelers wait to board the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin in the hangar at Lakehurst, New Jersey circa 1928-1937

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (12 of 19)

[96/128] U.S. Navy NC-3 drifts backward into harbor, Porta Delgada, Azores 1919 May 19

[97/129] Mechanics work on the NC-4, the first airplane to fly across the Atlantic, the only one of 3 Navy flying boats to complete the trip 1919 May

[101/135] Richard E. Byrd's tri-motor Fokker America being prepared outside its hangar on Long Island for its attempted flight from New York to France 1927

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (13 of 19)

[103/140] Pilot Verne Jobst beside replica of Spirit of St. Louis built to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Lindbergh's flight 1977

[104/142] Charles Lindbergh stands by the cockpit window as the engine of the Spirit of St. Louis is started for the first time at the Ryan Aircraft factory in San Diego 1927

[106/147] Charles A. Lindbergh in front of the Spirit of St. Louis circa 1927

[108/151] Charles A. Lindbergh arriving from Paris at Croydon Aerodrome, London 1927 May 29

[109/152] Charles A. Lindbergh with "keep out" sign hung in front of the Spirit of St. Louis by the Ryan Aircraft workers who built it 1927

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (14 of 19)

[112/159] Clarence Chamberlin (L) shakes hands with Charles A. Levine (R) in front of the plane Columbia in which they flew across the Atlantic in June 1927

[114/164] Richard E. Byrd's tri-motor Fokker America floats in the Atlantic off the French coast after a forced landing while attempting to fly across the Atlantic 1927 July

[115/165] Passengers arriving at Lisbon, Portugal, from New York on Pan American Dixie Clipper (Boeing B-314), on second trans-Atlantic passenger flight 1939 June 28

[116/165] Pan American Clipper (Boeing B-314) taking off circa 1939

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (15 of 19)

[110/168] Charles A. Lindbergh and Will Rodgers in front of a tri-motor Ford transport plane 1927 September

[118/170] Close-up shot of Mildred Doran, only woman in the Dole Derby, posed before glass doors of building 1927

[117 (recte 118)/171] Angel of Los Angeles , entrant in Dole Derby, crashed during a test flight a few days before the takeoff [August 16, 1927], killing pilot A. V. Rogers 1927

[119/173] Mildred Doran, only woman in the Dole Derby, in uniform, with dog, Honolulu 1927

[120/175] Major Livingston Irving (with wife and child?) in front of the Pabco Flyer, his entry in the Dole Derby; the plane crashed during takeoff, but Irving escaped from the wreckage 1927

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (16 of 19)

[121/178] The Woolaroc, piloted by Arthur Goebel, taxis up to the grandstand at Wheeler Field, Honolulu, upon arrival from San Francisco, in the Dole Derby 1927

[122/179] Hawaiian children inspect Martin Jensen's Aloha, 2nd-place winner in the Dole Derby 1927 August

[123/181] Arthur Goebel (2nd from left) receives congratulations for winning the Dole Derby and the $25,000 first prize 1927 August

[124/181] James Dole (center), sponsor of the Dole Derby, delivers $25,000 check to the winners, Lt. William V. Davis , navigator, and Arthur C. Goebel, pilot, of the Woolaroc (L), and $10,000 to Martin Jensen, pilot and Paul Schluter, navigator, of the 2nd-place Aloha (R) 1927 August

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (17 of 19)

[125/184-185] Photograph of the workers at the Ryan Aircraft plant in San Diego, California, who built the Spirit of St. Louis 1927

[126/187] Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan seated in cockpit of rebuilt Curtiss Robin in which he flew from California to Ireland 1938

[127/189] Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan standing in front of rebuilt Curtiss Robin in which he flew from California to Ireland 1938

[128/192] Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, with oranges in hand, at Fashion Park Estates, once the site of his Santa Ana orange grove circa 1970

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (18 of 19)

[129/195] Amelia Earhart in front of the Lockheed Electra in which she attempted to fly around the world 1937

[130/196] (L to R) Amelia Earhart, Wiley Post, and Roscoe Turner 1935 July 18

[131/198] Amelia Earhart rests against a wall while supervising the construction of the Lockheed Electra in which she attempted to fly around the world circa 1937

[132/199] Amelia Earhart inside the unfinished cabin of the Lockheed Electra examining blueprints for the plane circa 1937

[133/201] Amelia Earhart standing in the cockpit of the unfinished Lockheed Electra examining blueprints for the plane circa 1937

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants (19 of 19)

[135/203] Amelia Earhart in front of the Lockheed Electra in which she attempted to fly around the world 1937

[136/206] B-17 Flying Fortress bomber Carol Jean at a U.S. Air Force base in England circa 1942-1945

[139/207] Formation of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers dropping bombs over Germany circa 1942-1945

[140/208] British Airways Concorde jet taking off circa 1976

Photographs used in By the Seat of Their Pants , Oversize

[21/36-37] Glenn Curtiss winning speed contest and a $3,000 prize in one of his own planes at the Dominguez Air Show near Los Angeles 1910

[.../43] Rear view of the biplane in which Lincoln Beachey was killed at San Francisco on 14 March 1915

[.../45] Grover Bell 1912

[.../45] Glenn Curtiss standing beside plane he built and flew in 1910

[.../80] Grover Bell in one of first American planes to take off from water 1912

[74/104] "Pioneer dirigible, photographed near Los Angeles" 1910

[.../111] Lincoln Beachy racing A. Roy Knabenshue in dirigible at Dominguez Field, Los Angeles 1910 January

[105/146] Four men and a gas can in front of biplane circa 1910-1920

Photographs from Amelia Earhart, 20 Hours 40 Minutes (1928), not used in Ault's book 1928

Wilmer Stultz in flight jacket, helmet and goggles circa 1928

Amelia Earhart posed leather jacket and flight helmet circa 1928

(L to R) Mrs. Frederick Guest, Lou Gordon, Amelia Earhart, Wilmer Stutz, Mrs. Foster Welch, mayor of Southampton, England, at Southampton 1928

Three frames from cartoon strip "Skippy", captioned: "Percy Crosby's Skippy has his own ideas about flying the Atlantic" circa 1928

Seaplane Friendship tied to buoy at Burry Point, Wales 1928

Seaplane Friendship on the water with Amelia Earhart leaning out the door 1928

Amelia Earhart surrounded by a crowd at Toynbee Hall, London 1928

Photographic Negative undated

[.../28] Samuel P. Langley's Aerodrome hopefully illustrated in flight undated

Maps

[2/13] Map with cross indicating approximately where Amelia Earhart's Friendship sighted the passenger liner America 1928 June

[134/202] Route of Amelia Earhart's last flight 1937

Printed Matter

Aviation Hall of Fame (Dayton, Ohio), awards honoring pioneer aviators 1962-1976

[113/163] Bernt Balchen (1899-1973)

[23/40] Lincoln Beachy (1887-1915)

[100/133] Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888-1957)

[102/137] Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (1893-1976)

[29/46] Glenn Hammond Curtiss (1878-1930)

[49/65] James Harold Doolittle (1896-1993)

[7/22] Amelia Earhart Putnam (1897-1937)

[89/119] A. Roy Knabenshue (1876-1960)

[9/28] Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906)

[68/95] Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974)

[63/85] William Mitchell (1879-1936)

[30/48] Calbraith Perry Rodgers (1879-1912)

[13/30] Charles Edward Taylor (1868-1956)

[17/33] Orville Wright (1871-1948)

[18/34] Wilbur Wright (1867-1912)

[15/32] Front page of South Bend Tribune, with highlighted article, "Airship That Really Flies," about Wright brothers' successful flight from December 18, 1903 1972

[16/32] Blow-up of article, "Airship That Really Flies," from front page of South Bend Tribune 1972

[.../55] South Bend, Indiana, newspaper advertisement for "Free Aerial Exhibition ... Sunday afternoon, 1920 June 20

[64/88 and 66/91] "Air Transport 1976", with color reproductions of U.S. postage stamps bearing images of airplanes 1976

[77/107; 78/107; 80/109; 81/109, 82/110; 83/110; 84/110, 90/118, 91/121] Eugen Wolf, "The First Flight of Count Zeppelin's Air Ship," McClure's Magazine, vol. 16, no. 1. Offprint 1900 November

[79/108] First Ascent this Season, Vauxhall Nassau Royal Balloon at Six O'Clock Next Friday, May 12, 1837 undated

[92/122] Layout of passenger accommodations on board the airship Hindenburg 1936

[107/149] (Top) Original and (bottom) newspaper enlargement of U.S. Postal Service 13-cent stamp, issued in May 1977, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Charles A. Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris 1977