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Post by mgk1951 on Aug 30, 2008 15:17:43 GMT 8
Hi Everyone While searching the world wide web for aerial photographs of Corregidor Island, I found an article and several photographs of early US Military Aircraft identified as near Manila foreshore and at San Jose Beach on Corregidor Island. The site is the National Museum of the USAF. The page is titled Philippine Air School. There are 4 photographs. One is of a Burgess aircraft on the shallows of San Jose Bay and another is of its hangar in the same area. The remaining photographs were taken in Manila and include a Wright "C" on floats. The address is: www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=670&page=The images are small, but important. Regards to all Martyn
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Post by batteryboy on Aug 30, 2008 19:39:42 GMT 8
I have a few early aviation photos taken at Corregidor and will post it later on.
Regards,
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Post by The Phantom on Aug 31, 2008 4:53:49 GMT 8
Thanks for the great pictures of 92nd Garage area, aka San Jose Bay, where the Sea Planes were stationed on Corregidor. Had not seen any photos of that era, tied to that area before.
Parts of the concrete pad of the building shown in the photo may still exist today. There is a concrete area with rails running though it still in place above the beach. The picture shows rails leading down to the beach.......
Some rails, closer together, also embedded in the concrete, may be rails from the massive doors that used to be on the buildings? On this last trip in February 2008, a huge typhoon had hit Corregidor and taken away the newly built breakwater in this area and a lot of the beach in 92nd Garage/San Jose beach.
I saw two sets of what looked like the remains of steel tracks that may have had a mechanism attached to pull the sea planes out of the water? They looked like you would have maybe attached a chain onto them? I had not seen these before. They lead out of the water to the area of the buildings but disappeared in the sand.
Any thoughts?
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Post by batteryboy on Sept 1, 2008 14:23:10 GMT 8
Had problems with my connection last night but here it is: Burgess Model 1 Coast Defense Hydro floatplane at Fort Mills, Corregidor Island c 1914 more later..
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Post by mgk1951 on Sept 1, 2008 18:12:00 GMT 8
Hi Batterboy
Nice photograph of the Burgess aircraft. It would be the same aircraft depicted on the National Museum of the USAF website. Both photos might have been taken on the same day, although the bay looks calmer in your photograph. In the National Museum photograph, the Burgess is pictured from the rear - taxing out into the bay. The Burgess was wrecked the early the following year.
Regards
mgk1951
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Post by batteryboy on Sept 1, 2008 20:57:15 GMT 8
Here is a picture of the old Baloon Hangar ...and in 2000, we found the remains of the hangar. Only the concrete "H" beams remain. You can see the "H" beams on the sides of the opening of the hangar. FWIW,
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Post by batteryboy on Sept 1, 2008 21:24:09 GMT 8
Since the topic also involves early aviation in Manila, here are a few photos that maybe of interest: The first Filipino passenger in an aircraft was an Igorot Chieftain named "Gagaban". This happened in Feb. 12, 1912 when the pilot Lee Hammond offered to take the chieftain aloft in a Red Devil bi-plane over Luneta Park during the Manila Carnival of the same year. Two photos of a Curtiss Seagull on the beach at Tambo, Paranaque about to take in the waters of Manila Bay. Regards,
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Post by Karl Welteke on Nov 25, 2014 11:04:31 GMT 8
REPOST BY KARL, batteryboy’s PICTURE IS GONE Karl had a copy! Post by batteryboy on Sep 1, 2008 at 2:23pm Had problems with my connection last night but here it is: Y667 Burgess Model 1 Coast Defense Hydro floatplane at Fort Mills, Corregidor Island c 1914 more later..
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Post by Karl Welteke on Nov 25, 2014 11:48:26 GMT 8
REPOSTING MARTIN’S LINK FROM HIS START OF THIS THREAD 2008-08-30 AND THE CONTENT This is the same URL: www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=670&page=Here is the text: PHILIPPINE AIR SCHOOL In December 1911, the Signal Corps had shipped a Wright B airplane to the Philippines so that Lt. Lahm, already in the islands with the 7th Cavalry Regiment, could establish a flying school. He opened the Philippine Air School on March 12, 1912, and nine days later made the first flight from the polo field at Fort William McKinley. Lahm was able to teach an officer and an enlisted man to fly the airplane before having to halt operations in July because of the arrival of the rainy season. Lahm reopened the Philippine school on March 10, 1913, and began instructing three officers to fly. In May, a new Wright C arrived and flights were made in conjunction with the 1913 military maneuvers. Lahm suspended flights from the low ground at Fort McKinley during the rainy season, but workers built a temporary hangar on the beach of Manila Bay and both airplanes were fitted with pontoons. Unfortunately, the Wright B was damaged beyond repair following an engine failure on Aug. 28, and the Wright C crashed into the water and was destroyed on Sept. 12 during its first flight with pontoons. In September 1913, a Burgess seaplane was delivered to the Philippines and assigned to Corregidor Island for service with Coast Defenses. A hangar and other facilities were constructed on San Jose Beach near Fort Mills, Corregidor Island, and flying operations were begun by Lt. Herbert A. Dargue and Cpl. Vernon Burge, both pilots trained by Lahm. For 15 months, these two flyers worked with ground forces in observing the results of mortar and siege gun fire and locating targets, devising signaling systems using small parachutes and pistol flares, locating naval vessels and making aerial photographs. The most significant development, however, was in wireless communications, for during December 1914, Dargue demonstrated two-way radio telegraphy between an airplane and the ground. These tests ended on Jan. 12, 1915, when Dargue wrecked the Burgess hydroplane, and flying in the Philippines came to a halt. Here are the 4 images: Y668. Y669. Y670. Y671.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Nov 25, 2014 11:56:35 GMT 8
WHY IS KARL REPOSTING?
I recently looked at one of the balloon hangars on Corregidor Island and I like to use pertinent existing threads versus starting a new one. I also like to post more of the material of links before that material is gone forever.
So after I update the material and replaced missing pictures I will enter my presentation about one of the Balloon hangars on Corregidor.
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