Early Aviation in Long Beach (Images of Aviation)
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (670 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738570834 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I'm a native of Long Beach. I certainly did not know that until I did research.""Early Aviation in Long Beach" follows Schipske's first book with Arcadia Publishing, entitled "Rosie the Riveter in Long Beach." With more than 200 black and white photographs, this follow-up book explores the relationship between the city and aviation from Long Beach's beginnings to World War II."I think it calls attention to how significant Long Beach was in starting aviation in the country," Schipske said of her recently published work. "I thought there's got to be more than this."There was, and after 10 months of research and writing, Schipske finished "Early Aviation in Long Beach.""I am especially interested in local history," said Schipske, who has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California, Irvine, among several other academic accomp
Long Beach City councilwoman and author Gerrie Schipske discovered this fascinating part of aviation history while writing her first Arcadia publication, Rosie the Riveter in Long Beach, about the thousands of women who worked at the Long Beach Douglas Aircraft plant in World War II.
The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce sponsored the altitude contest won by Arch Hoxsey in the second Los Angeles Air Meet in 1910. This volume offers glimpses of early aviation at one of its core development locales, including photographs never before published of Earhart’s flight instructor, John G. A former Army Air Corps flight instructor, Earl Daugherty was known as the “greatest stunt pilot” and owned the area’s first non-beach airfield. Daugherty’s air circus and then took her first airplane ride with Long Beach Poly High School graduate Frank Hawks, Long Beach was already a key part of the golden age of aviation. Cal Rodgers ended the first transcontinental flight in the water near Linden Avenue on December 10, 1911. Balloonists had parachuted onto the city’s beaches in 1905 near the Pine Avenue Pier, and stunt pilots such as Frank Stites took off and landed on its sands in 1908. By 1920, when Ameila Earhart attended Earl S. Montijo.