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First World Flight
April 6 - September
28,1924
The First World Flight airplanes visited the Davis-Monthan
Airfield about a year before the Register was in place. You
will not find in the Register mention of the aircraft you
see in this section of the Cosgrove Collection.
I include these images
because their pilots and crew, Ogden, Wade, Harvey, Smith, Arnold and Nelson did
sign the Register at later dates, flying different aircraft.
For most of them, the First World Flight was
their 15-minutes of fame that remained with them the rest
of their lives.
The 45 images
presented in this section of the Cosgrove Collection are
from a bound photo album. Most were taken by Mr. Cosgrove,
Jr. when the fleet visited Tucson on September 21-22, 1924.
The fleet was just a week away from completing its round-the-world
mission, which terminated in Seattle, WA (left sidebar).
Note the period photo album with black pulp paper labeled
with white ink and a nib pen. Mr. Cosgrove, III disassembled
the album for me in order to enable flat, higher quality
scans. Unless otherwise noted, the images were scanned at
200dpi. Please note also: other than cropping, sizing and
optimizing the images for web display, they are unretouched
in any way.
Click on the thumbnails below to view
larger images, and additional information where available.
To my knowledge, this is the first time these images have
been made available to the public. We should all be grateful
to C.B. Cosgrove, III (right sidebar) for allowing us to
share in the important Golden Age history recorded in his
father's original photographs.
Round the World Flight, 1924
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UPLOADED: 10/24/06 REVISED: 02/09/08
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