Chinese Aviatrix Receives Gift Of New Plane From Colonel Roscoe Turner, Washington, D.C. [1939] Harris & Ewing [RESTORED] : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Chinese Aviatrix Receives Gift Of New Plane From Colonel Roscoe Turner, Washington, D.C. [1939] Harris & Ewing [RESTORED] / ralphrepo
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| 説明 | Entitled: Chinese Aviatrix Receives Gift Of New Plane From Colonel Roscoe Turner, Washington, D.C. [1939] Harris & Ewing [RESTORED] I did very little correction to this digitize image found in the US Library of Congress under Reproduction Number LC-DIG-hec-26410. The original glass plate negative from 1939 was assumed to be 4 x 5 inch standard. Hilda Yen, (1905-1970) came from a family of well to do and influential Chinese. Her father studied medicine at Yale and her uncle was a Chinese ambassador to the United States. She herself attended Smith College, and was a graduate of Yale in China. For a woman to have gone to college in those days, much less a Chinese woman, was already astounding. But not one to sit on her laurels, she also learned to fly airplanes. One has to remember that flying in the 1930's wasn't like aviation in the present day. There were no computers, very little in terms of cockpit aids, and pilots flew quite literally by the seat of their pants. It was a skill that few could attain and Yen was spoken of in the same breath with the likes of her contemporary, Amelia Earhart. She took her flying skill to China to instruct others on how to fly. She returned to the US to barnstorm and drum up charity aid for China, which at the time was already at war with Japan since 1937. In the picture above, she accepts a gift of an airplane, on behalf of the "Friends Of New China," from an American military officer, Colonel Roscoe Turner. Unfortunately, this plane almost killed her one month later, when she crashed while attempting to take off from a field near Montgomery, Alabama. Upon her recovery, she nonetheless continued to campaign and lobby on behalf of China until the end of the war. |
| 撮影日 | 2009-11-11 08:28:05 |
| 撮影者 | ralphrepo |
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