Biplane pilot Roy Francis

Name/Title

Biplane pilot Roy Francis

Entry/Object ID

FIN061

Description

Roy Francis is pictured here in Redding, California in 1912. An article in the September 9, 1912 San Jose Mercury newspaper noted that "Roy Francis has left the farm once more. After a period of about two weeks, passed in milking cows, feeding chickens, horses, pigs and the other animals of the farm, he heard the call of the biplane and responded. Yesterday morning at 9:20 o'clock, he rose over the treetops of Los Gatos and in exactly ten minutes he was on the ground in a field just south of town on the Monterey Road." He often gave exhibitions of flying. FIN061

Collection

Chappell Alice Scott Fink Collection

Made/Created

Date made

Jan 11, 1912

Dimensions

Height

24.7 cm

Width

41.9 cm

Location

* Untyped Location

Alice Scott Fink Chappell Collection

Copyright

Notes

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