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Cessna Model A

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Description: Three-quarter right side view from front of a Cessna Model A aircraft sitting on a runway. The tail identifier reads: "1627."
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7-RA Comet Engine on Alexander Eaglerock A-12 Aircraft

Date: 04 22 1930
Description: Front view of a Alexander Eaglerock A-12 aircraft fitted with the 7-RA Comet air-cooled radial piston engine with seven cylinders. The fixed-wing plane sit...
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Kreider-Reisner C-4 Challenger with Comet Engine

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Left side profile view of a 7-cylinder Comet air-cooled radial piston engine and propeller on a Kreider-Reisner C-4 Challenger aircraft. A design of the Co...
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Fokker Amphibian, Model F-11

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Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a Fokker Amphibian, Model F-11, sitting on a runway. Two men are sitting on the aircraft, and one man is standing on ...
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Thaden T-2 Aircraft with Comet 7-D Engine

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Right side profile view of the front of a Comet 7-D air-cooled radial piston engine and wooden propeller on a Thaden T-2 aircraft. A design of the Comet En...
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Lawson Air Liner Tail Structure Close-up

Date: 1919
Description: Close-up of the interior structure of a Lawson Air Liner tail assembly.
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Thaden T-2 Aircraft with Comet 7-D Engine

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a Thaden T-2 parked outdoors. Manufactured by the Thaden Metal Aircraft Company of San Francisco, California. The com...
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Sierra BLW-2 Aircraft with Comet 7-RA Engine

Date: 07 22 1929
Description: View towards the front of a Sierra BLW-2 aircraft, fitted with a Comet 7-RA air-cooled radial piston engine and a wooden Westinghouse Micarta propeller. Mo...
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Alfred Lawson Comparing Palmer and Goodyear Cord Aero Tyres

Date: 1920
Description: Alfred Lawson standing behind a Palmer cord aero tyre, which is sitting next to a smaller Goodyear cord tire. The smaller Goodyear tire was used for Lawson...
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Lawson Air Liner Under Construction

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior plates being attached to a Lawson Air Liner. Two men are crouching underneath the cockpit.
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Lawson Air Liner Tail Assembly Structure Close-up

Date: 1919
Description: Close-up view of the tail assembly (empennage) of a Lawson Air Liner, with the fins and tail skid attached.
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Lawson M.T.2 Tail Assembly Structure

Date: 1917
Description: Close-up of the empennage (tail assembly) of the Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2). Exterior plates have not yet been attached.
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Lawson Air Liner Near Hangar

Date: 1919
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a Lawson Air Liner, which is parked outdoors near an airplane hangar. Several people are behind the airplane.
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Hamilton Metalplane

Date: 1928
Description: Up on floats, an all-metal airplane built by the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee in 1928. Thomas Hamilton already had a national reputati...
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Lawson Air Liner Structure

Date: 1919
Description: The interior structure of a Lawson Air Liner sitting in a plant, probably in Milwaukee. The tail assembly (empennage) and cabin have been attached, and the...
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Men Turning a Lawson Air Liner Near Hangar

Date: 1919
Description: Several men are pushing a Lawson Air Liner by its wings back into an open hangar. A woman is walking near the front of the wing.
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Fokker Super Universal

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Description: Three-quarter view of front right side of a Fokker Super Universal seaplane floating in the water near a dock. Powered with Pratt & Whitney 410 hp Wasp mot...
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Partially Assembled Lawson Air Liner

Date: 1919
Description: A Lawson Air Liner under construction at the Milwaukee plant. The cockpit and cabin have been enclosed with exterior plates, and the tail structure is visi...
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Lawson Air Liner Cockpit Structure

Date: 1919
Description: Close-up of the cockpit structure for a Lawson Air Liner, including the steering wheels and a chair set on boxes. The overall quality of the cockpit sugges...
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Lawson Plant Machine Shop

Date: 1919
Description: Interior of the Lawson machine shop, with two Lawson engines, one housed in part of a fuselage, the other set on a wooden support. A long wooden frame is i...

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