Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome white background black and white Fighting Plane squadron One B Boeing FB-5 #1-F-1.(A-702) Squadron skippers aircraft that needs some painting fnished up. . FB-5 delivered to NAvy on 21 January 1927. 27 were built and all were rolled out and ferried out to the USS Langley (CV-1) in Seattle harbor. VF-1B flew the FB-5 for a year in 1927 until its aircraft were replaced with F2Bs. JMF Hasse collection via San Diego Aerospace 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 Plane squadron One B Boeing FB-5 #1-F-1.(A-702) Squadron skippers aircraft that needs some painting fnished up. . FB-5 delivered to NAvy on 21 January 1927. 27 were built and all were rolled out and ferried out to the USS Langley (CV-1) in Seattle harbor. VF-1B flew the FB-5 for a year in 1927 until its aircraft were replaced with F2Bs. JMF Hasse collection via San Diego Aerospace 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. |