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Your copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register 1925-1936 with all the pilots' signatures and helpful cross-references to pilots and their aircraft is available at the link. 375 pages with black & white photographs and extensive tables
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The Congress of Ghosts (available as eBook) is an anniversary celebration for 2010. It is an historical biography, that celebrates the 5th year online of www.dmairfield.org and the 10th year of effort on the project dedicated to analyze and exhibit the history embodied in the Register of the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ. This book includes over thirty people, aircraft and events that swirled through Tucson between 1925 and 1936. It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders. Order your copy at the link.
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Military Aircraft of the Davis Monthan Register 1925-1936 is available at the link. This book describes and illustrates with black & white photographs the majority of military aircraft that landed at the Davis-Monthan Airfield between 1925 and 1936. The book includes biographies of some of the pilots who flew the aircraft to Tucson as well as extensive listings of all the pilots and airplanes. Use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author, while supplies last.
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Art Goebel's Own Story by Art Goebel (edited by G.W. Hyatt) is written in language that expands for us his life as a Golden Age aviation entrepreneur, who used his aviation exploits to build a business around his passion. Available as a free download at the link.
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Winners' Viewpoints: The Great 1927 Trans-Pacific Dole Race (available as eBook) is available at the link. This book describes and illustrates with black & white photographs the majority of military aircraft that landed at the Davis-Monthan Airfield between 1925 and 1936. The book includes biographies of some of the pilots who flew the aircraft to Tucson as well as extensive listings of all the pilots and airplanes. Use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author, while supplies last.
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Clover Field: The first Century of Aviation in the Golden State (available in paperback) With the 100th anniversary in 2017 of the use of Clover Field as a place to land aircraft in Santa Monica, this book celebrates that use by exploring some of the people and aircraft that made the airport great. 281 pages, black & white photographs.
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EDDIE AUGUST SCHNEIDER
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Eddie Schneider (October 20, 1911-December 23, 1940) appeared once in the Peterson Field Register, on Monday, September 22, 1930. He carried two unidentified passengers in the Cessna he identified as NC9092 (Model AW; S/N 152). He arrived at Colorado Springs from Denver, CO. He and his passengers remained overnight, and departed the next day for Garden City, KS. For some reason he wrote "Atlantic Air Service" in the remarks column of the Register. Photograph, right, was from The New York Times, December 24, 1940.
Schneider's first claim to fame was a junior trans-continental speed record that he set August 18, 1930, just a year before we meet him at Santa Monica. His feat was reported in The New York Times of August 19, 1930, below. Other Register pilots held the record near the same time, including Frank Goldsborough and Bob Buck.
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What brought Schneider to Colorado Springs was the 1930 National Air Tour for the Edsel Ford Trophy. The 1930 NAT was the sixth in the series of Tours that were designed to show off aviation to the citizenry, many of whom had never seen an aircraft, let alone flown in one. The Tours tested both hardware and people and served as a major Golden Age cornerstone for the advancement of aviation science and sociology.
The 1930 NAT circumnavigated the U.S. midwest, and ventured north into three Canadian provinces. The map below, from the National Air Tour reference above, chapter 6, shows the route and places Schneider's itinerary exactly between Denver, Colorado Springs and Garden City as he recorded in the Register. He was about 2/3 of the way through the Tour.
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The photobraph (from chapter 6), left, was taken of Schneider standing by the door of his airplane at some point during the Tour. The person shaking hands with him was not identified.
Schneider performed well in the Tour. He ultimately placed 8th, winning $1,050 and the Great Lakes Trophy for his efforts. Not a bad outcome for a 19-year old pilot. His performance was summarized in the table below, from chapter 6. It includes technical information about his airplane and his winnings. The two passengers he brought to Colorado Springs are not listed in the table. Perhaps they were with him for only part of the Tour.
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Schneider also appeared once in the Clover Field Register, on Saturday, August 15, 1931 at 3:05PM. He was solo in his Cessna. Please direct your browser west to Clover Field for additional biographical information about Schneider, his family, and other Golden Age aviation events he participated in. He was killed in a mid-air aircraft accident in December, 1940.
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