1930s CLIPS EARLY AVIATION CALIFORNIA MUROC LAKE OAKLAND LONG BEACH CONTINENTAL

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This listing is for three 1930s newspaper clippings about early aviation in California:
Dec 1932 or early Jan 1933 - A clipping with an AWESOME photo showing an airplane refueling in flight. The gas and oil were supplied from a vehicle running at high speed beneath the airplane. The photo was taken from another speeding car. The photo and caption are complete, but the first part of the written article is missing.
April, 1930 - Clipping with photo showing "a crucial moment as two daring pilots risked their lives at Long Beach, Calif., to prove the feasibility of taking off and landing a small powered plane on a speeding motorboat." The plane "made several contacts on the 12-foot deck while the boat was making 45 miles per hour." The photo shows one of the take-offs.
March 27, 1933 - Clipping about a plane crash in Oakland caused by a fast moving storm. The plane, operated by Varney Speed Lines, crashed into a house in Oakland. 13 were killed and one injured. Only three of those killed were in the plane, including Noel B. Evans (Jack), considered one of the best "tough weather" fliers in the country. The others were in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Arisa. The Arisa family - parents and four children - were all killed. The other four killed, all young men, were neighbors and friends of the Arisas.The house, and an adjoining house, were burned to ruins, as well as the plane.
As an aside,
Continental Airlines was founded as the Southwest Division of Varney Speed Lines (the other division of Varney Speed Lines was in California) to fly over the contract mail route from Pueblo to El Paso. The service started in July 1934 with the addition of a passenger leg between Denver and Pueblo. The name changed to Varney Air Transport in December 1934 and again to Continental Air Lines in July 1937. Continental took over the Local Service carrier Pioneer Air Lines in April 1955.
If you are a collector of historic California early aviation memorabilia, this is a must-have for your collection!
This clipping was removed from a veeery old scrapbook that contained newspaper clippings about aviation, all dated in the 1930s.  It is in delicate condition, but can still be handled without crumbling.  Some of the clippings had been cut apart to fit within the pages of the scrapbook.  They have been reassembled (much like a jigsaw puzzle) and held together on the back by archival-quality mending tissue.
This is NOT Scotch tape!   ]
It contains no acid or lignin and will not cause discoloring or any other damage over time.  It should not be removed.
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