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Vintage Aircraft-scanned photos of 1930-40 airplanes, these photos either taken by or collected by Gus A Seidel my father.

Many of these photos are of a Douglas DC-1 as I understand it there was only one of these made before they made changes that resulted in the DC-2 then the DC-3 which is still being flown. Some of these photos are from a Air Shows probably in California in 1934-36. . Thanks to Chris Kinaman for the descriptions and names of the planes and piolets. Many thanks to him for this information.
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DC-1 Douglas Sleeper Transport DST
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DC-1 Douglas Sleeper Transport DST

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  • DC-1  only one of these planes exisited. It was accepted by TWA in 1933. Also known as DST for Douglas Sleeper Transport
  • DC-1 Douglas Sleeper Transport DST
  • DC-3  owned by Eastern Airlines
  • DC-1 used by TWA in 1939
  • DC-1
  • DC-1
  • Last flight of DC-1
  • Possibly Model 14 Lockeed  being packed up and shipped to England
  • Seversky SV-1 This type of plane won the Bendix transcontinental Race in 1937 & 39
  • Beech A17F  1934 Air Show. This airplane was originally owned by a wool product manufacturing company, with the idea that they needed the fastest possible transportation for their execs between mills or plants or whatever wool processing facilities are called. This one was a real hot rod with a 700 hp Wright Cyclone engine and it could cruise at over 200 mph. Fuel burn was colossal at its top speed of over 245 mph. Eventually the airplane was sold... to Howard Hughes. Later it was entered in the 1937 Bendix Trophy transcontinental race but one of the landing gear struts collapsed on the takeoff roll due to the weight of fuel in auxiliary tanks mounted in every possible space in the cabin, leaving only enough room for the pilot. Luckily the airplane did not burn. It was a favorite for the win, as it was plenty fast enough and could possibly have made it without a fuel stop. There is a dispute about who owned the airplane at that time. It was entered and flown by Bob Perlick but there is some reliable speculation that Hughes still owned it. The airplane was taken to a local hangar in the Los Angeles area for repairs and it just sort of disappears. There is a story that Hughes had the airplane retrieved and brought to one of his own hangars or warehouses and that it was still in his possession when he died. Who knows, it may still be in a warehouse somewhere. Beech built hundreds of Model 17 Staggerwings of various models, but there was only one like this one.
  • Crosby CR-3 - this airplane was designed, built, and raced by Harry Crosby who drew his inspiration from watching flying fish while on a sea voyage. It's hard to see that in this pic but after this airplane was destroyed in a crash, he designed its successor, the CR-4 which is now on display at the EAA Airventure Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin and there is certainly a resemblance to a flying fish. The CR-3  was finished in 1936 and was written off later that same year. Crosby was a test pilot for Northrop Aviation in WWII, testing, among other things, some of their early flying wings - the predecessors of today's B-2 stealth bomber. He was killed after bailing out of a flying wing which had gotten into a spin from which he couldn't recover. The spinning aircraft hit him as he hung beneath his open parachute. Very few pictures of the<br />
CR-3 are out there. The CR-4 was found in a barn in the 1980s, restored, and donated to the Experimental Aircraft Association. It's a beautiful machine.
  • Stinsons in  photo for add
  • Harold Neumann and "Toots", the Folkerts SK-2. Neumann was a very successful race pilot in the Golden Age of air racing, winning both the Thompson Trophy for Unlimited engine size and the Greve Trophy for 500 cubic inch airplanes in 1935, flying two different airplanes for Benny Howard. In 1936 he started flying for TWA and commissioned Clayton Folkerts to build a racer for him. At the 1936 National Air Races, he won three races, placed second twice, and got one fourth place. One of the wins netted $3000 which probably paid for the construction of Toots. This pic was taken while Neumann was posing for the Official Photographer's publicity shot for a win - note garland on Toots' nose.  Toots was tiny and light and did very well for Neumann and, later, for other pilots. It was destroyed a couple of years later when Gus Gotch, a well-known racer, stalled it on takeoff at a race and was too low to recover and crashed to his death. Harold Neumann retired from TWA in 1966 and flew aerobatics in the National Aerobatic Championships held in Fond du Lac Wisconsin through the 1970s. He had a great story about a time he was flying around the Midwest with his wife in the mid-1930s in an open cockpit biplane and had to land in a farmer's field. Now, this was only a few years after Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh were making headlines flying all over the world together. The farmer came over and his eyes got bigger and bigger as Harold explained he was low on fuel and needed to get some gas.  Finally the farmer asked "Are youse LINDBERGHS?" Harold paused for a second and said "You know, we coulda got away with that..."
  • Art Chester's "Jeep" - I did a little work on the restoration of this airplane, which is now on display at the EAA Airventure Museum. Art was a master at extracting the most power out of smallish engines. As a matter of fact, Harold Neumann used to say his SK-2 was a faster airplane than the Jeep but he knew it would be quite a bit faster if he could have used Art Chester's engine. Both airplanes had the same type of engine. Chester named his airplanes after characters in the Popeye comic strip.
  • Caudron C-460 - In 1936 this airplane was shipped to the US from France to compete in the National Air Races (Los Angeles) 500 cu. in. <br />
Greve Trophy race. The pilot, Michel Detroyat, won easily. He determined that the airplane would have an excellent chance in the Thompson Trophy race for unlimited engine displacement so he entered that race and won it too. One of only two airplanes and three pilots to have won both the Greve and Thompson Trophies in the same year. A replica of this airplane is now flying out of Flabob Airport in Riverside California.<br />
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1936 Air Show California
  • Bucker Jungmeister aerobatic plane, flown in 1936 in the airshow which took place during the National Air Races. Brought from Romania and flown by Lt Alex Papana of the Romanian Air Force. It's entrely possible that he flew an airshow in Burbank that same year.
  • Beech 18  "Twin Beech"
  • Keith Rider R-1 "Suzy" - this occurred at the 1936 National Air Races after the finish of the Greve race won by Detroyat. Another racer had to avoid a film camera truck which rolled onto the runway, causing that pilot to crash. Rudy Kling, pilot of Suzy, was landing right behind when a car and a group of spectators headed onto the runway toward the first crashed airplane. Kling tried to avoid everything and hit the guy wire. He also hit the car - the hub of one wheel with broken wooden spokes can be seen sticking up at the base of the tower. No one was injured beyond cuts and bruises. Kling won the Greve and Thompson races in 1937 in the Folkerts SK-4, the only other airplane besides the Caudron to win both. The SK-4 was the follow-on to Neumann's SK-2, and Kling (1937), Neumann (1935), and Detroyat (1936) were the three pilots to win the Greve and the Thompson in the same year. Kling was killed in a racing crash later in 1937.
  • Caudron C-460 - In 1936 this airplane was shipped to the US from France to compete in the National Air Races (Los Angeles) 500 cu. in. Greve Trophy race. The pilot, Michel Detroyat, won easily. He determined that the airplane would have an excellent chance in the Thompson Trophy race for unlimited engine displacement so he entered that race and won it too. One of only two airplanes and three pilots to have won both the Greve and Thompson Trophies in the same year. A replica of this airplane is now flying out of Flabob Airport in Riverside California.
  • Another foreign visitor to the 1936 National Air Races, Focke-Wulf "Flamingo" flown in the airshow by Ernst Udet, a German ace fighter pilot in WWI.
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