Aviation

Name/Title

Aviation

Entry/Object ID

2020.9.475.e

Description

Edward Schlee and William S. Brock of Detroit establish round trip cross country speed record by flying their Lockheed Vega monoplane from Jacksonville Beach to San Diego in13 hours 5 minutes and returning in 16 hours 50 minutes. After their legal touchdown at the beach they continued to Jacksonville Municipal Airport, where, despite a slight mishap damaging their landing gear, they turn edvover their sealed barograph to NAA official, Dr. Ralph N. Greene of Jacksonville.

Collection

Photographs Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Photograph, Black-and-White

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects