Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome outdoor black and white Fighting squadron One (VF-1B) Boeing FB-5 #1-F-7 (A-71--) in a dvie over the city of San Diego. Note Balboa park in the background. VF-1B was redisignated from VF-1 in January 1927 for Aircraft Squadrons Battle Fleet. This is the commanding officers aircraft with a battle E painted under the cockpit. Assigned to USS Langley (CV-1). VF-1B replaced the FB-5s with Boeing F2Bs in 1928. JMF Haase 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. Fighting squadron One (VF-1B) Boeing FB-5 #1-F-7 (A-71--) in a dvie over the city of San Diego. Note Balboa park in the background. VF-1B was redisignated from VF-1 in January 1927 for Aircraft Squadrons Battle Fleet. This is the commanding officers aircraft with a battle E painted under the cockpit. Assigned to USS Langley (CV-1). VF-1B replaced the FB-5s with Boeing F2Bs in 1928. JMF Haase 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. |