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Your copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register (available in paperback) 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 Kindle Edition 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 It includes across 277 pages previously unpublished photographs and texts, and facsimiles of personal letters, diaries and military orders.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 (available in paperback) 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 (available as free PDF download) 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 Kindle Edition 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 & Kindle Edition) 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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DANIEL WEBB "Tommy" TOMLINSON
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Tommy Tomlinson was a Naval Aviator (No. 2923), earning his wings on August 11, 1921. Tomlinson was a military and transport pilot (certificate number 764). He gained fame in both venues. He was an early believer that if aircraft could not fly at night or in bad weather, they wouldn't be very useful. Because of that belief, he became an early proponent of instrument guidance and flight.
His Navy career was significant, because, among other activities, he was a member and leader of the "Three Sea Hawks", the Navy's first aerobatic team.
We can question Tomlinson's name in the Grand Central Air Terminal. The name "Tomlinson" appears in the Register six times during 1930-31, but the tower Operator did not record a first name or initials. A few of the entries identified the pilot as "Mrs." Tomlinson, who could be Tommy's second wife, writer Virginia Sullivan. But, she was not a pilot.
Further, the airplane flown each time by "Tomlinson" was a Bird BK, NC849W, S/N 2053-33. The owner was identified as Mrs. Maddux. Tommy Tomlinson worked for Maddux Airlines during that period before it was merged into TWA. So there is reasonable circumstantial evidence that one or more of the six landings identified made by pilot "Tomlinson" were made by Tommy.
The full biography for Tommy Tomlinson, with photographs, news articles and a chronology of his six marriages, is online at the Davis-Monthan Airfield Regsiter Web site at the link. Tomlinson was born at Batavia, NY, April 28, 1897. He died in Oregon January 7, 1996, a year or so shy of his hundredth birthday.
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