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"Military Aircraft of the

Davis-Monthan Airfield 1925-1936"

Edited by G.W. Hyatt

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Military Aircraft of the Davis-Monthan Airfield 1925-1936

What happens when you take a cold training manual and wrap it with humanity?

This book is a complement to the aviation history website known as www.dmairfield.org.  The website celebrates the pilot transient Register from the Davis-Monthan Airfield, Tucson, AZ that lay open for pilots and passengers to sign between February 6, 1925 and November 26,1936. Recorded in the Register are 3,689 landings by 1,962 unique pilots, flying 2,129 unique aircraft.  They carried 2,061 unique passengers.

The core of the book is TM 2170-35, “Identification of Aircraft”, issued originally in 1929.  It is a training manual to help U.S. Army Air Corps personnel identify contemporary military aircraft. 

Twenty-eight of the 41 aircraft types illustrated in TM 2170-35 were flown to Tucson during the time of the Register.  Further, 850 landings were made at Tucson by these aircraft and their gifted pilots.

Your Old Pilot says:

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Yes, TM2170-35 is reproduced in its entirety, including photographs of airplane types.  Black & white images with technical captions are “cold”.  But, add the people from the Register and an intimate parallel emerges between this book and the website.  The book interweaves with the people of the Register and introduces us biographically to the pilots as unique human beings.  It lists pilot names and dates of arrival at the Airfield.  It lists the registration numbers for the aircraft they flew, in the event you care further to research them.  The tabulated information comes from the database that drives www.dmairfield.org.  But, ladies and gentlemen, we feel warmer when we learn that it was the people who drove the technology, not the other way around.

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Other Oldairfield.com Books 21st Century Editions are:

“The Register of the Davis-Monthan Municipal Airfield With Cross-References to the Pilots Who Landed There And Their Aircraft” by G.W. Hyatt

"Art Goebel's Own Story" by Art Goebel (edited by G.W. Hyatt)

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