Aviation

[AVIATION]. FRANKLIN, Paul J[ames].Biblio.com

Wonderful souvenir album chronicling the aircraft stunt flying and automobiles of a Salem Oregon flight instructor for Ryan Flying School with several aerial shots of air shows and airports.

1937rif. 64225Salem OR: Paul J. Franklin Commercial Pilot Photographer 1937. Oblong 4to. 10.25 x 7 in. 24 pp unpaginated. With 15 original silver gelatin photographs sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. all neatly mounted w/ tan paper corners 1 printed business card for Franklin mounted on front pastedown w/ corners. Simulated burgundy-coloured crocodile post-binder boards gilt lettering stamped on front c over punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ brown silk braid NF exemplar w/ all photos having nice contrast. A fascinating souvenir album chronicling the career of a young aviator test pilot and aerial photographer during the Great Depression while working as an instructor for the T.C. Ryan Flying School in Salem & Albany Oregon. The photos depict Franklin seated in the cockpit of a race plane; aerial view of the Salem Airport and other airports; image of a 1935 Waco YPF-6 Biplane crashed onto its belly with pontoons laying behind; trick flying including inverted shots and smoke writing a ‘76” for Union 76 Gasoline. Along with an interior and exterior shot of a stylish streamlined Art Deco 1937 DeSoto the album concludes with a shot of Watsonville Airport in Santa Cruz CA with a Travel Air E-4000 biplane at the hangar entrance owned by D.M. Harwick with dirigible flying above the field. Franklin 1912-1957 was the son of longtime Salem dry cleaner owner Orie F. Franklin 1882-1960 and after Ryan Flying School became a C.A.A. flying instructor in Albany Oregon enlisted and served in the Navy during World War II recovered from a bout of malaria and following the War moved to California where he became a test pilot for North American Aviation jet aircraft until 1955. He subsequently became a Hollywood Stunt pilot working with Paul Mantz and is perhaps best remembered as having restored with his friend Coffin one of three Ryan B-1 aircraft substituted as Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis and also doubled along with Mantz for James Stewart for some shots in the filming of the 1957 movie “The Spirit of St. Louis.” Tragically he was subsequently killed after filming in an automobile accident along Pacific Highway. Paul J. Franklin, Commercial Pilot, Photographer, hardcover

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