Inscription on verso: "Just before the crash. Charles Rocheville, World War ace, piloting his tern amphibian plane especially constructed for trips through Upper McKenzie River on its initial test flight over Huntington Beach, Calif. Suddenly something went wrong with the controls, operation difficulties developed and the ship went into a long slide to earth. Rocheville, high up in the cockpit, was thrown clear of the plane and escaped with only minor injuries. The beautiful ship was completely wrecked."
Inscription on verso: "Built up from Lockheed wing and tail."
[Rocheville Arctic Tern aircraft in flight], [2008-03-31_image_560]. Museum of Flight Digital Collections, accessed 09/12/2025, https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/nodes/view/10738
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