[Pangborn, Herndon, and Acosta with Bellanca Skyrocket "Miss Veedol"]

Photograph of Clyde Pangborn (right), Bert Acosta (center), and Hugh Herndon (left) shaking hands in front of "Miss Veedol," a Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft (tail number NR796W), at Roosevelt Field, New York, circa 1931.

Typed caption on verso: "Herndon-Pangborn Round-The-World-Flight. 138 – Bert Acosta, noted flyer, wishes Hugh Herndon, Jr. (left) and Clyde E. Pangborn, 'Happy Landings', before their departure from Roosevelt Field in their Wasp-powered Bellanca Monoplane on the round-the-world-flight in which they seek to lower the record now held by the Graf Zeppelin."