MAKE A MEME View Large Image September 6, 1927 Object number: A.2009-15 Medium: paper; photo-emulsion Description: After his years in the airmail service, Lloyd Bertaud continued to try and make aviation history. He and an old airmail buddy, James DeWitt Hill, were ...
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Keywords: smithsonian institution smithsonianinstitution rome mail airmail delivery 1927 men two standing suits boater nx 703 nx703 fokker aircraft fokkeraircraft fokker fokker f.vii fokkerfvii fokker f.viia fokkerfviia f.vii fvii f.viia fviia f.7a f7a fokker f.7a fokkerf7a old glory oldglory lloyd bertaud lloydbertaud bertaud james dewitt hill jamesdewitthill j.d. hill jdhill philip payne philippayne fokker f.7 fokkerf7 ebassy vontage american embasey pillow gift plane pilots embassy american embassy americanembassy bag national postal museum nationalpostalmuseum aviation aircraft airplane c/n 4899 cn4899 4899 fokker f.viia/1m fokkerfviia1m f.viia/1m fviia1m fokker f.7a/1m fokkerf7a1m f.7a/1m f7a1m aviators aviator james d. hill jamesdhill james hill jameshill hill payne Date: September 6, 1927 Object number: A.2009-15 Medium: paper; photo-emulsion Description: After his years in the airmail service, Lloyd Bertaud continued to try and make aviation history. He and an old airmail buddy, James DeWitt Hill, were swept up in the excitement of record making flights in these early aviation years. They decided to try for a distance record-making trip Rome. The pair were sponsored by newspaper giant William Randolph Hearst and accompanied on their flight by Philip Payne, a Hearst employee. The pair took off in a Fokker F.VIIA monoplane they named Old Glory from an airfield in Maine on September 6, 1927. At about 4 am the next morning Bertaud radioed a pair of distress calls. The nearest ship reached an assumed crash area later that morning, but was unable to find any sign of the plane or crew. Hearst sent a chartered ship, the SS Kyle, to the search area. Five days after Bertaud's distress calls the Kyle's crew discovered Old Glory's wreckage. There was no sign of the crew. National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown Place: United States of America See more items in: National Postal Museum Collection Credit line: National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown Persistent URL:http://www.arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=207513 Repository:National Postal Museum View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. Date: September 6, 1927 Object number: A.2009-15 Medium: paper; photo-emulsion Description: After his years in the airmail service, Lloyd Bertaud continued to try and make aviation history. He and an old airmail buddy, James DeWitt Hill, were swept up in the excitement of record making flights in these early aviation years. They decided to try for a distance record-making trip Rome. The pair were sponsored by newspaper giant William Randolph Hearst and accompanied on their flight by Philip Payne, a Hearst employee. The pair took off in a Fokker F.VIIA monoplane they named Old Glory from an airfield in Maine on September 6, 1927. At about 4 am the next morning Bertaud radioed a pair of distress calls. The nearest ship reached an assumed crash area later that morning, but was unable to find any sign of the plane or crew. Hearst sent a chartered ship, the SS Kyle, to the search area. Five days after Bertaud's distress calls the Kyle's crew discovered Old Glory's wreckage. There was no sign of the crew. National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown Place: United States of America See more items in: National Postal Museum Collection Credit line: National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: Unknown Persistent URL:http://www.arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=207513 Repository:National Postal Museum View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution.
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