The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women
If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Tokens for Sweethearts, in Times of War
American Picker Dream, Part I: Mike Wolfe On His Love Affair With Bikes
Posted 10 months ago
scottvez
(554 items)
This is a great piece of early aviation history.
It was inside an album put together by a member of the Langely Field Army Fire Department from 1924- 1927.
This particular item appears to be a dial from an early aircraft instrument. The note identifies it as being from a JN-6 Jenny airplane that crashed 20 AUG 1924.
The pilot of the aircraft was Smith DeFrance. DeFrance was a fighter pilot during WW1 with two aerial victories to his credit. After the War he went to college for aeronautical engineering and became an engineer and test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). He was also the first director of the Ames Research Center. In the late 1950s NACA was absorbed into the newly created NASA and DeFrance continued to run the Center until his retirement in 1965.
Smith DeFrance's contributions to aeronautics research and development were recognized by his induction into the NASA Ames Hall of Fame.
Reproduction of these images in any form is not authorized.
scott
World War OneWorld War I coincided with numerous advances in technology, resulting in th…
DocumentsDocuments encompass all manner of printed and handwritten forms, from deeds…
Thanks for looking chris, official and manikin.
scott
Thanks bellin and petey.
scott
your very welcome scottvez :) cool :)
Is that all that was left?!
Brought to you by an aircraft mechanic who promised his mother not to fly in anything he worked on.
I am sure there was considerable wreckage-- this is just an easy album piece.
The album came from a Langely Field firefighter's album.
scott
Thanks for looking packrat.
scott
Remember, there is only 1 phase of flying where you can fail. You can fail to get off the ground. You will not fail to come back down. Old A&P's sick humour.
Thanks for looking walksoftly.
scott
Thanks for looking pencap.
scott
Thanks for looking majestic.
scott
I went back & took a serious look trying to figure what it did on a jenny? 0-5-10 pounds of air? Never worked on a jenny, but still can't figure what it was for. Some basic manifold pres. gauge in the minus? Has anybody identified it?
Thanks for looking vetraio.
scott
Thanks thrifty and mikie.
scott
Thanks for looking p...!
scott