FRED G. EELLS 1886-1965

 

Fred Eells in flight No. 2 July 17, 1910 photo by P. Kirkham Collection of Steve Scully

	Biography	News Clippings	Photo Album

 

	Airaft	Final Flight

 

Early Pilots Collection. Photographs, clippings, correspondence; 1894-1978; 2.2 cubic feet. There is material on Thomas S. Baldwin, Lynn Bauder, Lincoln Beachey, Joe Bennett, Tony Bitetti, Art Boston, Ralph M. Brown, Frank H. Burnside, Joe Costa, William E. Doherty, Fred Eells,Theodore Ellyson, Eugene Ely, Walter L. Fairchild, John J. Frisbie, Bert Hassell, Beckwith Havens, Frederick A. Hoover, Ray Hylan, Fulton Irwin, John Kaminski, Charles B. Kirkham, Henry Kleckler, E. M. Laird, Ruth Law, William S. Luckey, Damon Merrill, Harvey Mummert, Hugh Robinson, Blanch S. Scott, Windy Smith, Francis Wildman, J. Newton Williams, and others, including a number of student pilots from Japan. Also a typed history of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Airplane Division, 1910-1945, by Art Butler, and reminiscences of Curtiss Airplane Company of Buffalo, 1915-1919. RLIN ID NYHV2306-A. Editor's Note: This collection is housed in the New York Historical Society Collection.

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Fred Eells +aviation", using the Google search engine, (11-4-03), you will find about 11 links. Most of them are quite fragmentary. Among the most helpful are the following.

FRED FLIES A BIPLANE, 1911      "Fred Eells flies a pontoon equipped Rieflin biplane (patterned after the Curtiss) at Glen Haven. He flew at an altitude of 350 feet, for one hour and twenty-one minutes covering a distance of seventy three miles."        This brief excerpt comes from a page on the VINTAGE VIEWS OF ROCHESTER, NY website. It offers a TIMELINE of a few aeronautical events from 1836, the first balloon ascension, to 1935. It also offers images of nine air transportation postcards. You may visit it by clicking on the title above.

 

 

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