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| Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome outdoor black and white Fokker T-2 (AS 64233) Army Air Service Non Stop Coast to Coast at Rockwell Field in May 1923. Piloted by LTs Oakley G. Kelly and John A. McCready, the T-2 flew coast to coast in May 1923 from New York to San Diego. Major HH(Hap) Arnold, later WW II leader of AAF, greeted the crew at Rockwell Field. JMF Haase Collection via San Diego Aero Space Museum From the Haase Collection JMF Haase Collection This selection of beautiful photographs of early Navy aircraft is from the J.M.F. (Joseph Malta F.) Haase collection, courtesy of the San Diego Aero Space Museum. J.M.F. “Bunny” Haase was a Navy Chief photographer who documented all the aviation activities from the early 1920 through the early 1930s at North Island that at the time encompassed the Army’s Rockwell Field and NAS San Diego. His large collection also covers civilian and Army aircraft as well. His air-to-air photographs are featured in many aviation reference books but usually under the credit line of US Navy. Chief Haase also participated in the second Alaskan Aerial Survey in 1929 and was responsible for the first US motion picture of the sun’s eclipse done in 1930 that was done from an aircraft. Fokker T-2 (AS 64233) Army Air Service Non Stop Coast to Coast at Rockwell Field in May 1923. Piloted by LTs Oakley G. Kelly and John A. McCready, the T-2 flew coast to coast in May 1923 from New York to San Diego. Major HH(Hap) Arnold, later WW II leader of AAF, greeted the crew at Rockwell Field. JMF Haase Collection via San Diego Aero Space Museum From the Haase Collection JMF Haase Collection This selection of beautiful photographs of early Navy aircraft is from the J.M.F. (Joseph Malta F.) Haase collection, courtesy of the San Diego Aero Space Museum. J.M.F. “Bunny” Haase was a Navy Chief photographer who documented all the aviation activities from the early 1920 through the early 1930s at North Island that at the time encompassed the Army’s Rockwell Field and NAS San Diego. His large collection also covers civilian and Army aircraft as well. His air-to-air photographs are featured in many aviation reference books but usually under the credit line of US Navy. Chief Haase also participated in the second Alaskan Aerial Survey in 1929 and was responsible for the first US motion picture of the sun’s eclipse done in 1930 that was done from an aircraft. | ||||
