PARKS SCRAPBOOKS VOL.1 NO. 3 and VOL.1 NO 4

C. W. "Speed" Holman's Laird LCR-200, winner of the 1929 Gardner Cup

Vol. 1 No. 3

The Gardner Trophy Air Races
May 28-30, 1929

This documentcontains 43 pages of Scrapbook material and the original 3-part manuscriptcalled, “The Gardner Trophy Air Races”, written by Terry Bowden in 1994.  The first two parts of this work becamepublished in “American Aviation Historical Journal”, Fall/Winter 2007.

Vol. 1 No. 3

The 1929 Women’s Air Derby

Stop-over at Parks Airport

August 24,1929 was an interesting day at Parks Airport. On this day, female participants in the 1929 Transcontinental Women’sAir Derby landed for an overnight stop at Parks Airport.  This document contains 23 pages of related Scrapbookmaterial and a listing of the Air Derby Race Results, compiled by Terry Bowdenin 1990.  Much of the photos arepreviously published.  News clippings areincluded from Saint Louis area newspapers. The photo above from the Parks Airport register includes signatures ofmany ladies who participated.

 

© 2013 by Terry L. Bowden

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 Vol. 1  No. 3
Vol. 1 No. 4

Curtiss Robin NR526N - The Key Bro's - Famous Robin Refueled Endurance Flight

The following 2-part article was recently published on Historic Wings webpage.

Known as the Flying Key Brothers, Al and Fred Key were supported by refueling crew, James Keeton and Bill Ward, Jr.  This endurance / refueling team kept their "Ole Miss" Curtiss Robin J-1 (NR526N) aloft over Meridian Mississippi for a 654 hours and 34 minutes.  I hope you'll check out the story HERE to learn more about this historic flight.

This airplane has resided in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum since 1955.

Aluminum Stamped Ribs for Curtiss Robin

Attention Curtiss Robin restorer's:

RIBS AVAILABLE

05/06/2013 -  I received the following notice through email from restorer, Jim Bloomer.  This is great news.  Al Holloway has been doing much to extend the lives of these old birds.

Terry,

 Hope thing are going well. Just FYI….Al Holloway at Holloway Engineering has built the tooling to stamp out new wing ribs for the Robin. He will be running a batch in the next two months. He recently did the ribs for the horizontals and they came out beautiful. If anyone is interested they need to get hold of him ASAP. Right now there are three of us who are getting new sets. The more we have, hopefully the cheaper it will be. If you could send out an e-mail to the other owners there may someone else who needs a set.

Jim Bloomer

Holloway Engineering is located at Gansner Field (identifier 2O1).
262 Spanish Creek Rd. Quincy, CA 95971
(530) 283-2500 | Fax: (530) 283-0250
E-Mail: radial@inreach.com
F.A.A. Repair Station OHYR 527 L