[Photograph 2012.201.B0171.0097]

Caption: "The Boeing Hornet-shuttle plane hopped off from the Oakland, cal. airport for New York, today, Aug. 27, on an attempted distance refueling flight."
Date: August 27, 1929
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0171.0100]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Capt. Ira Eaker and Lieut. Bernard Thompson will soon start from San Francisco in a large Boeing Mail plane, called the "Shuttle," in an effort to break the present trans-continental and also the refueling endurance records." The top plane (Shuttle) is a Boeing Model 40 and the bottom plane is a Boeing Model 95.
Date: August 7, 1929
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History