[Window display featuring Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon's trans-Pacific flight]

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Identifier2005-12-27_image_102SourceThe Clyde Pangborn Pilot Collection (2005-12-27), Box 3, Folder 9DescriptionPhotograph of a Great Northern Railway window display featuring Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon's trans-Pacific flight, New York, New York, circa 1930s. The display includes photographs of Pangborn and Herndon and a poem about visiting Wenatchee, Washington, where the pair landed at the end of their flight.

Poem: "An apple falling from a tree, / Made Newton think of gravity: / The apple then is food for thought, / To which the greatest minds are brought. / Pangborn & Herndon thrilled the nation, / Defying laws of gravitation. / They had a bright dare-devil notion, / To reach Wenatchee, o'er the ocean. / Traditional apples Newton saw, / Originated gravity's law. / Wenatchee, famed through fruit and air, / Is reached by rail at modest fare."

Inscription on verso: "A window display on 5th. Av and 45 St. N.Y. City."Creation Datecirca 1930sSubjectPangborn, Clyde Edward, approximately 1893-1958Herndon, Hugh, 1904-1952Air pilotsGreat Northern Railway Company (U.S.)PlaceNew York (N.Y.)New York (State)Wenatchee (Wash.)Washington (State)United StatesOriginal Formatphotographic printspoemsBibliographic CitationThe Clyde Pangborn Pilot Collection/The Museum of FlightRightsIn copyright

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