Loading Air Mail Plane Using Floodlights, Fort Crook near Omaha, Nebraska, 1924
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Transcontinental air mail pilots relied on a string of powerful light beacons to navigate sections of the New York to San Francisco route at night. They flew night mail planes equipped with illuminated instrument panels, navigation lights, and landing lights. At airfields along the way, floodlights helped workers inspect the planes, refuel, and unload and load the mail.
Transcontinental air mail pilots relied on a string of powerful light beacons to navigate sections of the New York to San Francisco route at night. They flew night mail planes equipped with illuminated instrument panels, navigation lights, and landing lights. At airfields along the way, floodlights helped workers inspect the planes, refuel, and unload and load the mail.
Artifact
Photographic print
Date Made
01 July 1924
Subject Date
01 July 1924
Creators
Unknown
Keywords
United States, Nebraska, Fort Crook
United States, Nebraska, Offutt Field
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1629.193
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 5 in
Width: 7.125 in
Inscriptions
on front: Omaha. July 1, 1924- All photos made by use of field flood lights / Loading plane for the west - E. M. Ellison - pilot
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