Digital Collection
2013.103.101

Print, Photographic

Black and white photo of MISS AMERICA X, taken from the bow looking back at the engines and cockpit. Gar Wood and Orlin Johnson are sitting in the cockpit. A seaplane can be seen in the background. The verso is marked as follows: "Four tandem mounted (Model 2500) 1,600 H.P. Packard Engines in Miss America X. Total 6,400 H.P. - Speed 124.81 M.P.H. Benzol Gas consumption - 500 gallons per hour. Motor Revolutions - 2,600 per minute. Wheel revolutions -7,696 per minute. Gar Wood and Orlin Johnson."

Date
c.1932
Collection
Print Size
8" x 10"
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