The reminiscences of Colonel Francis T. Evans
Series: N.Y.T. [i.e. New York times oral history program -- 1]; Columbia University oral history collection -- pt. 2, no. 61
Published: 1975
Language: eng
Number of pages: 38
Subjects: Air pilots; Biography; Correspondence; Aviation; United States. Marine Corps
Other titles: Evans, Francis Thomas
Description: Marine Corps aviator. Topics include: stunt flying in 1915 San Francisco Exposition; first seaplane flight, 1915 Pensacola; structure and faults of early planes; submarine spotting; K-3 balloon adventures, 1916; looping the Curtiss N-9; World War I: Curtiss factory in Buffalo, training in Newport News, establishment of Naval Air Training Station, Cape May 1917, by ship to Sea Plane Base 13 in Azores, 1918, sub chasing and depth bombing, training recruits in Miami; Quantico; 1925 flight over continental divide and crash landing; 1928 crash in Haiti, consequences; jet flight in 1950s; theory of harmonic flight.
Notes: Transcript of an inteview conducted for the Aviation Project of the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University in 1960.

Includes index.

Microfiche of typescript. Glen Rock, N. J. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1975. -- 1 sheet ; 11 x 15 cm. -- (Columbia University oral history collection ; pt. 2, no. 61)