Sixteen-year-old Robert N. Buck sets new flying record, Los Angeles, 1930

Title: Sixteen-year-old Robert N. Buck sets new flying record, Los Angeles, 1930
Date Created: October 1930
Date: 1930-10
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: On Monday 16-year-old Robert flew from Newark, New Jersey, and proceeded to make stops at Martins Ferry, Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Wichita, Albuquerque, and Kingman, before arriving in Los Angeles in 28 hours and 33 minutes.
A grinning Buck stands beside his plane, leaning on one elbow into the carriage.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Boy Flyer Sets New Time Mark," Los Angeles Times, 05 Oct 1930: A2.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: BUCK, ROBERT BOY FLYER 1930
Handwritten on negative: Robert Buck

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Buck, Robert N., 1914-2007
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles
Teenagers
Biplanes--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_1185
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dbm07
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Rights Country: US
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