Endurance Record holding Hunter Brothers with monoplane, Los Angeles, 1930

Item Overview

Title

Endurance Record holding Hunter Brothers with monoplane, Los Angeles, 1930

Date Created

July 22, 1930

Date

1930-07-22

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph published with article: "Flying Hunters Given Welcome, Four Endurance Champions Land at City Airport, Will Make Next Test Flight Here, They Declare, Officials and Large Throng Extend Greetings," Los Angeles Times, 23 Jul. 1930: A1.
Photograph of the "Hunter Brothers", Albert, John, Walter and Kenneth, who, in 1930, set the World Endurance Flight Record of 553 hours, 41 minutes and 30 seconds over Chicago. They visited Los Angeles with their monoplane, City of Chicago, a large yellow and blue Stinson-Detroiter and the refueling ship, Big Ben. Their record was later broken by the Key Brothers.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Famous Air Quartet Lands Here
Handwritten on negative: [top right] Kenneth Hunter; [bottom right] Walter Hunter; [bottom left] Albert Hunter; [top left] John Hunter.
Text on negative sleeve: Hunter Bros. Aviators, 1930; Kenneth, John, Walter, Albert

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Hunter, John, 1903-1932
Hunter, Albert, 1897-1942
Hunter, Kenneth, 1909-1974
Hunter, Walter, 1906-1983

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Monoplanes--American--California--Los Angeles
Brothers and sisters
Stunt flying--United States