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Record flight attempts

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Any attempt to set a speed or distance record for flight.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Nat Browne Record Flight Attempt Photograph Album and Negatives

 Collection
Identifier: 1987-09-22-E
Contents of the Collection The Nat Browne Record Flight Attempt Photograph Album and Negatives is a small collection comprised of visual materials related to Nat Browne's May 30, 1932 attempt to fly solo from Seattle, Washington to Tokyo, Japan in his modified Fokker Universal "Lone Star." The photograph album contains 56 black-and-white 4x5-inch vintage prints taken by photographer Harry A. Kirwin at Boeing Field in Seattle. On the inside of the front cover of the album is the inscription: "Nat Brown and...
Dates: 1932 May 30

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