Northwest History. State History. Aeronautics, Continued Airports, Commercial Service. Air Races & Shows & Non-Stop Flights. 1931 to 1937.
Spokane Rates As Pioneer Of The Air. SPOKANE RATES AS PIONEER OF THE AIR SPOKANE'S name will come to mind when air races are run across the country, as the name of Colonel Lindbergh flashes to the fore with every mention of an airplane solo flight across the ocean. Just as Lindbergh was first t...
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ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/141630 2023-05-15T17:34:28+02:00 Northwest History. State History. Aeronautics, Continued Airports, Commercial Service. Air Races & Shows & Non-Stop Flights. 1931 to 1937. The Spokane Chronicle 1935-09-03 Spokane Rates As Pioneer Of The Air. 1935-09-03 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/141630 English eng nwh-sh-3-8-48 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/141630 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Spokane Air races Colonel Lindbergh Aviation Solo flight Bonny oward Roscoe Turner Cleveland National air derby Northwest History -- History -- 20th century United States -- Aeronautics Continued Airports Commercial Service -- 20th Century Text Clippings 1935 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:39:50Z Spokane Rates As Pioneer Of The Air. SPOKANE RATES AS PIONEER OF THE AIR SPOKANE'S name will come to mind when air races are run across the country, as the name of Colonel Lindbergh flashes to the fore with every mention of an airplane solo flight across the ocean. Just as Lindbergh was first to accomplish the history-making feat which made him world famous, Spokane was the first to conceive the idea of a national air derby. The races held here in 1927 and the derby flown in connection with them marked a turning point in competitive aviation in this country. It is easy now to cross the plains and bad lands of the middle west and mountain states, but it was not so simple and sale a procedure 100 years ago. It seemed easier even to make the second flight across the north Atlantic because Lindbergh already had done it. His experiences counted for something. The race of Benny Howard and Roscoe Turner from Los Angeles to Cleveland last month was made safer and faster because of the experiences which have come from like trials since Spokane pioneered in the field of cross-country aviation in 1927. Text North Atlantic Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Bad Lands ENVELOPE(-164.000,-164.000,-78.500,-78.500) |
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Northwest History. State History. Aeronautics, Continued Airports, Commercial Service. Air Races & Shows & Non-Stop Flights. 1931 to 1937. |
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Northwest History. State History. Aeronautics, Continued Airports, Commercial Service. Air Races & Shows & Non-Stop Flights. 1931 to 1937. |
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Northwest History. State History. Aeronautics, Continued Airports, Commercial Service. Air Races & Shows & Non-Stop Flights. 1931 to 1937. |
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