File:Dole Air Race NX913 "Golden Eagle" Lockheed Vega 1.jpg

English: Lockheed Vega 1 (NX913) sold to George Hearst,for an entrty in the Oakland to Hawaii race sponsored by James Dole. AC was powered by a 200 hp Wright Whirlwind J5 radial, had adjustable tailplane, wheels that could be detached,floatation bags and many other features needed for the overwater flight. Aircraft was named the "Golden Eagle". Jack Frost and navigator Gordon Scott left Oakland 16 August 1927, six weeks and one day after its first flgiht. The aircraft went missing and Lockheed continued this line with modifications calling it the Vega aircraft.

JMF Haase Collection 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.