?? Do you recognize the aviator in these photo's??? Maybe you can ID the aircraft??
Edit -- since 2008, the
Globe-Democrat Collection was moved ($$-lack of support)
-- and the URL's are all wrong now, and those newspaper photo's are more difficult to locate.
Found this one, now Aug' 2017
These are from a series of old newspaper photo's available on the web that remain
UNidentified. Here are four photos of
an aviator, possibly from the 1923 Int'l Air Races at Saint Louis, but the OXYGEN MASK suggests that his might have been a later high ALTITUDE attempt. His right shoulder strap (parachute strap) has some lettering, last four letters are visible "...RVIN”.
All four images are from From
the collections of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis,
St. Louis Globe-Democrat Collection:
http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/...;c=mercic;g=vm
St. Louis Globe-Democrat Glass Plate Negative,
Their web-site offers better quality images (magnification):
--
GDGPS0096, Pilot in flight suit standing next to propeller of mono-wing aircraft ...
-- Image gdgps0059,
(mirror-image err), Pilot in cockpit of aircraft wearing goggles and oxygen mask ...
-- GDGPS0074,
(mirror-image err), Pilot Standing ... propeller of monoplane. His hand is resting on under section of propeller. Crowd ... Right parachute shoulder strap shows last four letters “RVIN”
-- GDGPS0083, Woman in fur coat ... next to fuselage ... Pilot seated in open cockpit. Crowd ...
(not shown here)
Below are three of the four photos:
