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The Stinson Detroiter Royal Windsor, at the Old Orchard Beach airfield, in September 1927. A transatlantic flight was scheduled to be made, with the airplane, from Windsor, Ontario to Windsor, England, by aviators Duke Schiller, a Canadian, and Phil Wood, an American, in September 1927, but it was called off, while they were at Harbour Grace, New Foundland, in Canada, after the Stinson Detroiter Sir John Carling, flown by Terence Tully and James Medcalf, and the Fokker VIIA Old Glory were lost over the Atlantic Ocean. The Sir John Carling had taken off from Harbour Grace, on September 7th and was competing for the $25,000 prize that was offered by the Carling Brewery for the first flight from London, Ontario to London, England. |
The Stinson Detroiter Royal Windsor, at the Old Orchard Beach airfield, in September 1927. |
Louis Burnell, Jones' mechanic, getting into the Royal Windsor, at Old Orchard Beach, on September 15, 1927. |
Harry Jones, in front of the Royal Windsor, and Alfred Morse, under its wing, at Old Orchard Beach, in September 1927. |
Alfred Morse on top of the Royal Windsor, on September 14, 1927. Jones' Stinson Detroiter SB-1 is on the left. |
The pilots of the Royal Windsor, Phil Wood and Duke Schiller, in front of the aircraft, at Old Orchard Beach, on September 16, 1927. Their flight was sponsored by businessmen from Windsor, Ontario. |
The pilots of the Royal Windsor, Phil Wood and Duke Schiller, in front of the aircraft, at Old Orchard Beach, on September 16, 1927. |
The Royal Windsor, on September 16, 1927, in front of Harry Jones' hangar, which was destroyed, by a hurricane, in 1938. The hangar has advertising, on one of its sides, for Hazzard shoes. The Friendship Motor Inn now occupies this site. |
The Royal Windsor at Curtiss Field, on Long Island, New York, before its flight to Old Orchard Beach. Copilot Phil Wood has a hand on its propeller. |
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