Preparing to Start Planes at West Virginia Flying Corps Big Hangar in Beech Bottom, W. Va.

Identifier:

001323

Collection Number:

A&M 1590

Title:

Preparing to Start Planes at West Virginia Flying Corps Big Hangar in Beech Bottom, W. Va.

Date:

ca. 1918

Description:

Preparing to start aircraft #1 Curtiss JN-4 and "grass cutter" training plane. Plane #1 was destroyed in a crash on August 4, 1917. In this crash Cadet C.B. Lambert (of Welch, West Virginia) was killed, and Lieutenant William Frey was injured. (See newspaper Wheeling Register, August 4, 1917.) Each ground crewman in the picture is about to "turn over the prop" in order to start the engines of the airplanes.

Subjects:

World War, 1914-1918--Aerial operations., World War I--Aviation--Pilots--Bennett, Louis., Biplanes.

Acquisition Source:

Williams, Douglas B.

Acquisition Method:

Acquired

Medium:

print

Projects:

West Virginia History OnView