ETE4129761: Mitchel Field, Long Island (NY), USA, 1929: The Curtiss 54 Tanager in flight. This aircraft was built to participate in the Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition, which it won thanks to various innovations (floating fins, revolutionary slots and flaps that allow it to reduce speed and land less than 100 feet) - Mitchel Field, Long Island, NY, USA, 1929: the Curtiss 54 Tanager in flight, . / Bridgeman Images
ETE4129810: Culver City, California, USA, July 1929: Air refuelling for American pilots Loren W. Mendell and Roland B. Reinhart. They will achieve an endurance record with a flight of 246 hours, 43 minutes aboard their plane “” the Angeleno”” - Culver City, California, USA, July 1929: refueling the Angeleno plane above the city during an endurance flight by Loren W Mendell and Roland B Reinhart, . / Bridgeman Images
ETE4129885: Washington DC, USA, October 1931: After being received by US President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Supreme Court President Evans Hughes, Sr. (1862-1948) (in the centre with the cane) poses with ten judges of the American Federal Circuit. From g to d: Kimbrough STONE (Kansas City, Mo), Georges H.BINGHAM (Manchester, NH), Arthur C.DENISON (Grand Rapids, Mich), Hughes, Joseph BUFINGTON (Pittsburg, Pa), Samuel ALSCHULER (Chicago, Ill). Second rank in g ¿d: Robert E.LEWIS (Denver, Co), Curtis D.WILBUR (S.F, Cal), John J.PARKER (Charlotte, NC), Martin T.MANTON (Brooklyn, NY) and Nathan P.BRYAN (Jacksonville, Fla) - Washington DC, USA, October 1931: Chief Justice Evans Hughes, Sr (1862-1948) and ten Senior from Federal circuit courts meet with President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), . / Bridgeman Images