Fokker America
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2015-07-10
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Starboard side view of the Fokker tri-motor airplane at Roosevelt Field prior to its attempted trans-Atlantic flight in 1927 to capture the Orteig Prize (later won by Charles Lindbergh.) The airplane crashed on a practice takeoff severely injuring Floyd Bennett, the pilot, and his passenger, Richard Byrd. Image displayed (72 dpi JPEG), Master image (600 dpi TIFF).
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Glines, Carroll V., 1920-, Aerospace writers, Roosevelt Field (Airport : Garden City, N.Y.), Airports, Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957, Fokker F.VII, Fokker, Anthony H. G. (Anthony Herman Gerard), 1890-1939, Wanamaker, Rodman, 1863-1928, Trans-Atlantic flights
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Permission to publish material from this collection in any form, current or future, must be obtained from the Special Collections Department, Eugene McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas.