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00040440 SDASM

US Army Air Corps Boeing P-12Bs in flight. over SanDdiego identical to the NAvy's F4B apart from the deletion of the arresting hhok and Navy equipment. circa 1929-1930.

JMF Haase collection

via San Diego Aero Space Museum

 

From the Haase Collection

 

JMF Haase Collection

 

This selection of beautiful photographs of early Navy aircraft is from the J.M.F. (Joseph Malta F.) Haase collection, courtesy of the San Diego Aero Space Museum. J.M.F. “Bunny” Haase was a Navy Chief photographer who documented all the aviation activities from the early 1920 through the early 1930s at North Island that at the time encompassed the Army’s Rockwell Field and NAS San Diego. His large collection also covers civilian and Army aircraft as well. His air-to-air photographs are featured in many aviation reference books but usually under the credit line of US Navy. Chief Haase also participated in the second Alaskan Aerial Survey in 1929 and was responsible for the first US motion picture of the sun’s eclipse done in 1930 that was done from an aircraft.

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Uploaded on July 26, 2010
Taken on December 20, 2004