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Your copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register 1925-1936 with all the pilots' signatures and helpful cross-references to pilots and their aircraft is available at the link. 375 pages with black & white photographs and extensive tables
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The Congress of Ghosts (available as eBook) is an anniversary celebration for 2010. It is an historical biography, that celebrates the 5th year online of www.dmairfield.org and the 10th year of effort on the project dedicated to analyze and exhibit the history embodied in the Register of the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ. This book includes over thirty people, aircraft and events that swirled through Tucson between 1925 and 1936. It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders. Order your copy at the link.
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Military Aircraft of the Davis Monthan Register 1925-1936 is available at the link. This book describes and illustrates with black & white photographs the majority of military aircraft that landed at the Davis-Monthan Airfield between 1925 and 1936. The book includes biographies of some of the pilots who flew the aircraft to Tucson as well as extensive listings of all the pilots and airplanes. Use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author, while supplies last.
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Art Goebel's Own Story by Art Goebel (edited by G.W. Hyatt) is written in language that expands for us his life as a Golden Age aviation entrepreneur, who used his aviation exploits to build a business around his passion. Available as a free download at the link.
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Winners' Viewpoints: The Great 1927 Trans-Pacific Dole Race (available as eBook) is available at the link. This book describes and illustrates with black & white photographs the majority of military aircraft that landed at the Davis-Monthan Airfield between 1925 and 1936. The book includes biographies of some of the pilots who flew the aircraft to Tucson as well as extensive listings of all the pilots and airplanes. Use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author, while supplies last.
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Clover Field: The first Century of Aviation in the Golden State (available in paperback) With the 100th anniversary in 2017 of the use of Clover Field as a place to land aircraft in Santa Monica, this book celebrates that use by exploring some of the people and aircraft that made the airport great. 281 pages, black & white photographs.
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ALINE RHONIE
"I hit a man once. Socked him in the nose ... and it bled.
He said that women weren't good for anything but having babies ...."
-- Aline "Pat" Rhonie, quoted in a 1940 news article
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Aline Rhonie landed at Pitcairn Field once, on November 19, 1930. Based at Roosevelt Field, NY, she was flying Travel Air NC449M. There was no indication in the Register if she was carrying passengers, or the nature of her itinerary. She was one of six female pilots to sign the Pitcairn Field Register.
We are fortunate to have separately an extensive number of excellent photographs and documents related to pilot Rhonie's life. These are online at the Davis-Monthan Register Web site as The Aline "Pat" Rhonie Photograph and Document Collection. She was a very photogenic woman and her albums hold many snapshots as well as formal portraits of her and others, as well as photos of aircraft.
Rhonie was also an industrial entrepreneur (see below) as well as a fine artist of considerable repute. At her Collection page, there is an entire section devoted to a very large Golden Age aviation mural that she designed and painted on a hangar wall at Roosevelt Field.
She landed and signed the Davis-Monthan Register in 1934. She signed the Register as "Mrs. Peter Brooks." She and her husband were on a voyage to celebrate their marriage by flying a cross-country, 17,000 mile aerial honeymoon. Both were pilots, and both flew their own airplanes through Tucson. They were both independently wealthy; I have no record of just how long they spent on their honeymoon, but it was probably a good long time, given the distance they covered (if they averaged a hundred or so miles per day, they were traveling for six months or so). That they were in separate aircraft suggest she would be a copilot for no one throughout her life. And she wasn't. She, Peter Brooks and their airplanes are pictured at her full biography page, Aline Rhonie's biography, online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Web site at the link. Please direct your browser there to learn more about her humanitarian and flight activities during WWII. She carried private pilot license P17023. She appeared in Who's Who in Aviation for 1940, page 354, below.
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