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Clayton D. Bowyer B-29 bomb door installation notebook

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2019-03-20
Overview

The Clayton D. Bowyer B-29 bomb door installation notebook is a small spiral notebook with handwritten notes regarding the installation of bomb doors on B-29s during World War II.

Dates: circa 1939-1945

Kenneth B. Luplow Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2015-05-20
Content Description The Kenneth B. Luplow Collection is a small collection consisting of a logbook and notebook dating to Luplow's time working for Boeing in the 1940s. The logbook spans 1941-1946, and documents Luplow's role as flight engineer on many first flights, including the XB-29 and XC-97 and XPBB-1. Other test flights documented include ones for B-17 variants. Test pilots documented in the log include J.B. Fornasero, Elliott Merrill, A.C. Reed, Edmund T. Allen, Robert Lamson, J.A. Fraser,...
Dates: 1941 - circa 1949

Richard J. McWhorter Stearman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-06-06
Abstract

Richard J. McWhorter (1921-2007) was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho and had a long standing and multi-faceted interest in aviation, including owning and restoring vintage airplanes. The collection includes manuscript materials, ephemera, audio-visual materials, and approximately three hundred (300) photographs documenting the restoration of a Stearman C-3B (#NC7550), on display at The Museum of Flight, as well as a Stearman C-3R (#NC656K).

Dates: 1927-2004 ; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1979

Harold W. Zipp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-11-12
Abstract

Harold W. Zipp was an engineer at the Boeing Company for forty years. The collection documents his career, particularly his tenure in Wichita, Kansas, with diaries, photographs and other documents.

Dates: circa 1930-1971; Majority of material found within 1930-1951

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Brazil. Fôrça Aérea Brasileira 1
Cally Curtis Company 1
Carlson, Ed D. "Skeeter" 1
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Hall, Pat 1
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King County International Airport 1
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Lamson, Robert T., 1914-2011 1
Levy, David "Deed" 1
Luplow, Kenneth B., 1919- 1
McWhorter, Bettie 1
McWhorter, Richard J., 1921-2007 1
Merrill, A. Elliott (Albert), 1901-1992 1
National Parks Airways 1
Navratil, Pat 1
Reed, A.C. 1
Robbins, Robert M. 1
Schaefer, Julius E. 1
Short, Mac 1
Showalter, N.D. (Noah David), 1925-2012 1
Silvius, Ray 1
Snohomish County Airport 1
Stearman (1927) 1
Stearman, Lloyd, 1898-1975 1
Tibbets, Paul W. (Paul Warfield), 1915-2007 1
Tillman, Barrett 1
Tomlin, Pat 1
United States. Air Force 1
United States. Air Force. Far East Air Forces 1
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Wells, Edward C., 1910-1986 1
Western Air Express Corporation 1
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Whitehead, Ennis Clement, 1895-1964 1
Wilson, T. A. (Thornton Arnold), 1921-1999 1
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Zipp, Harold W., 1906-1991 1
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