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Photograph of a crowd with Elinor Smith's Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft, Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York, March 27, 1931. The verso caption notes that the photo was taken after the aircraft was damaged during Smith's attempt at the women's altitude record.Typed caption on verso: "Bellanca monoplane after being cracked up by Miss Elinor Smith, while attempting to break womens altitude…
Photograph of Elinor Smith's Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 aircraft after crashing upside down near Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York, March 27, 1931.Typed caption on verso: "Noseover of Miss Elinor Smith's monoplane [cut off] / March 27, 1931. After attempt by the fam[cut off] nineteen year old girl flyer to regain the women's altitude record. Near Mitchel Field."