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Title
C162610-A
Date(s)
- 1929 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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ca. 1929. In the late 1920's, St. Louis had Lindbergh and Tacoma had Bromley. Harold Bromley had high hopes of flying his Lockheed Vega monoplane, named "City of Tacoma," from Tacoma to Tokyo, a continuous trip of 4700 miles. In the photograph, he holds a map of the proposed course. He never got to make the attempt, the Vega crashed on takeoff July 28, 1929; a victim of its own overfull fuel tanks. (This is a cropped version of photographs scanned as TPL-7030 and TPL-7029)
Bromley, Harold; Airplanes--Tacoma--1920-1930; Aeronautics--Tacoma--1920-1930;