1911 photograph Lt Myron Crissy preparing to drop first live bomb from an aeroplane, Building 937, Crissy Field, San Francisco
Large archive monochrome photograph, at the front of the former Seaplane Hangar at Crissy Field, showing Lt Myron Crissy preparing to drop the first live bomb from an aeroplane in 1911. On 15 January 1911 Lt Myron Crissy became the first aviator to drop a live bomb from an aeroplane at the Tanofran Horse Racing Track, south of San Francisco. Crissy dropped a 36 pound bomb, from a Wright Model B Flyer piloted bt Phil Pharmalee, within a designated 20 ft target area from a height of 1500 ft. This test demonstrated the feasibility of aerial bombing by an aeroplane and the potential of the aeroplane in modern warfare. By the end of 1911 the first air raid in history was carried out by an Italian pilot, Giulio Gavotti, on an Ottoman camp in Libya, during the Italo-Turkish War 0f 1911-1912. Crissy Field is named after Major Dana H. Crissy, who, flying out of the yet un-named field in 1919, died in an air crash. Major Hap Arnold, later a 5-star general, saw to it that the airbase was named in Crissy's honour in 1921.
Size: 5472px × 3648px
Location: Seaplane Hangar (Building 937), Crissy Field, Presidio, San Francisco, California, USA
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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