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Aviation in Northern California 1910-1939, Vol. 1: San Francisco Bay Area is the only book to give a detailed account of early flying in the Bay Area. Historian Allen Herr recalls the aviation pioneers who flew weekly exhibitions promoting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition fifteen months prior to its San Francisco opening. These pioneers formed flying schools, built airports, manufactured aircraft, and competed against each other. Herr captures the energy behind the Bay Area aviation movement, tells who was involved, and describes the effects of their extraordinary determination and achievements. This edition replaces Herr's Wooden Wings over the Golden Gate with a new cover, ISBN and some wording. It is one of three in Herr's series of Aviation in Northern California 1910-1939.

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Are you coming to the Sacramento Archives Crawl on October 6th? Get ready to Go Places with us, by checking out this thoroughly researched book. Author Allen Herr traces the history of flight along the California coast from the Dominguez Hills air meet (the first air meet in the U.S.) all the way through to the Dole race to Hawaii and includes details on the many pilots and planes in-between! If you love air shows, airplane history, or tales of aeronautical derring-do, this is the book for you! --California State Library book of the week

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