Pilots Assemble Planes for Aviation Meet

Posted on January 7, 2010 by lmharnisch
Jan. 7, 1910, Aviation Meet
 
Jan. 7, 1910, Aviation Meet

Two views of the Gill-Dosh biplane at Dominguez Station.

Jan. 7, 1910, Aviation Meet

Jan. 7, 1910, Aviation Meet   
Jan. 6, 1910, Wireless

3rd and Boylston streets, home of the Collins wireless station, via Google maps’ street view.
 
Jan. 7, 1910: Airplanes are being assembled at Dominguez Station for the Aviation Meet and a tent has been erected to serve as a hangar. Los Angeles radio enthusiasts have been sending bulletins along the coast and plan to erect an antenna above the grandstand: a “skyhook” 750 feet long and 60 feet in the air. Messages are being sent at 15 words per minute using the Continental rather than American Morse Code.

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