Clarence Chamberlin Fokker Biplane SS Leviathan Navy Aviation 1927 Press Photo for Sale

Clarence Chamberlin Fokker Biplane SS Leviathan Navy Aviation 1927 Press Photo For Sale

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Clarence Chamberlin Fokker Biplane SS Leviathan Navy Aviation 1927 Press Photo:
$112.46

Subject: Clarence Chamberlin in Fokker Biplane hops off S.S. Leviathan

Year: 1927

Type: Press Photograph

Measurements: 9.75" x 7.75"

Comments: This is an original press photo. The photos show the actual item being sold.

Fokker biplane, piloted by Clarence Chamberlin, just after it had hopped off a temporary runway on the SS Leviathan while 150 miles out at Sea. An hour later, Chamberlin landed safely at Curtiss Field after braving a heavy fog. It is the first time that an airplane has been launched from a passenger ship, while at sea.

After the rains slackened, the seas calmed down, and all of the reporters were seasick, Chamberlin attempted takeoff. "The Leviathan's 19 knot speed and the wind blowing gave a component air flow straight up the runway, down which the takeoff would be attempted. Chamberlin had expected to use the entire runway, but at about three-fourths of the way the plane was flung into the air by up-thrusting winds turned skyward by the sides of the big ocean liner."

Clarence Duncan Chamberlin was an American pioneer of aviation, being the second man to pilot a fixed-wing aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to the European mainland, while carrying the first transatlantic passenger.

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