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Your webmaster is available to speak for a fee about the various findings and activities regarding the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register. At this time there are four presentation topics, described in more detail below.

Each talk is about an hour, uses Microsoft PowerPoint driven by a laptop computer (supplied). Paper handouts are available for note taking. No limits to audience size. Please use CONTACT US for further information and speaker scheduling.

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TOPIC NUMBER 1:

The Golden Age of Aviation: The Davis-Monthan Airfield Tucson, Arizona 1925-1936

Summary: The Davis-Monthan Airfield, established as a municipal field on July 26, 1919, preceded the current, well-known military storage and restoration facility. The early field was a main east-west fuel and rest stop for notable Golden Age pilots and their aircraft.

By examining air traffic records from a vintage Airfield transient log, through personal interviews with pilots who landed at Tucson in the 1920’s and 30’s, and synthesis of Golden Age historic events in the southwest, your speaker spins a ripping yarn that takes us back to a period when aviation was barely adolescent, and when pilots dead reckoned their way across a nation on the verge of sprouting wings.

Target audiences for this talk are civil and military aviation and air transport historians, Golden Age enthusiasts, Arizona and southwest U.S. citizens, aviation clubs and groups, students and teachers.

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TOPIC NUMBER 2:

Female Pilots of the Golden Age: The Davis-Monthan Airfield Tucson, Arizona 1925-1936

Summary: The Davis-Monthan Airfield, established as a municipal field on July 26, 1919, preceded the current, well-known military storage and restoration facility. The early field was a significant rest and fuel stop for notable female pilots of the Golden Age and their aircraft.

Forty-one female pilots made 57 landings at the Airfield between 1925 and 1936. Nine of their aircraft are still registered with the FAA. By examining their air traffic records from a vintage Airfield transient log, through personal interviews with the current owners of their airplanes, “then” and “now” images of their aircraft, and synthesis of Golden Age historic events in the southwest, your speaker spins a ripping yarn that focuses on female pilots dead reckoning their way across our nation.

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TOPIC NUMBER 3:

Air Transport During the Golden Age: The Davis-Monthan Aviation Field Tucson, Arizona 1925-1936

Summary: The Davis-Monthan Aviation Field, established as a municipal airport on July 26, 1919, preceded the current, well-known military storage and restoration facility. Several early air transport companies frequented the Field. Among them American Airlines (the inaugural sleeper service landed there), Scenic Airways (later Grand Canyon Airlines), and Standard Air Lines, the subject of this talk.

Although several Standard Air Lines aircraft visited the Field, three Fokkers landed with sufficient frequency to compute three measures of economic importance. Load factor, seat-miles and punctuality are considered. These measures derive from data handwritten in the transient register maintained at the Field between 1925 and 1936.

A unique feature of the register is that transport pilots routinely listed the numbers and names of their passengers during stops at Tucson. Since many early airline companies did not retain this information, the register enables us uniquely to know passenger manifests, and to reconstruct economic efficiencies that are available nowhere else for these airlines. Histories of the aircraft and some of their pilots are included in the talk.

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TOPIC NUMBER 4:

WWW.DMAIRFIELD.ORG: The Website of the Davis-Monthan Aviation Field, Tucson, Arizona February 6, 1925 to November 26, 1936

Summary: The website described in this talk is about the Golden Age transient Register from the Davis-Monthan Aviation Field, Tucson, AZ. From the Register stem all types and directions of United States aeronautical trends and developments. Moreover, the people, aircraft, places and events recorded in the Register spawned the intellectual and physical infrastructures of global aviation technologies, in peace and in war, during the 20th century.

This talk is a guided tour of the website. It describes the mechanics of the website, plus it provides historic detail on the pilots, passengers, airplanes and other factors. It invites attendees, and site users, to enjoy a better understanding of the social and technical aspects of Golden Age aviation.

Target audiences for this talk and the website are civil and military aviation and air transport historians, Golden Age enthusiasts, Arizona and southwest U.S. citizens, aviation clubs and groups, students and teachers. This talk works best with laptop computer access to a high-speed internet service (broadband: wired or wireless), but such access is not required.

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