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Auction: 369 - Autographs & Documents e-Auction featuring the Mike Roth Aviation Collection Part II
Lot: 32

1926 Collier Trophy Award. Recommendations for Awardee. Claim for award from USAAS pilot Major Edward L. Hoffman, for his work in developing the modern parachute (Hoffman would be the winner for 1926). Four pages typed, Lunken Airport, Cincinnati, Oct. 18, 1926, signed by Hoffman below. With attachments noting and extolling Hoffman's work in developing the parachute - Typed letter signed by Major General Mason Patrick, Air Corps; handwritten letter from Engineer Thurman H. Bane; typed letter signed by Engineer Delos C. Emmons, typed letter signed by R.H. Fleet, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Buffalo to Hoffman suggesting that he present his claim, typed letter signed by Major John F. Curry, Air Corps; typed letter signed by Major L.W. Mcintosh, Air Corps; typed letter signed by V.E. Clark, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Buffalo, to Hoffman crediting him; typed letter signed by Guy M. Ball , Chief Parachute Branch, McCook Field; January 14, 1927 Letter from the Irving Air Chute Co., Inc., Buffalo, NY suggesting the U.S. Air Corps Aeroplane Safety Parachute for the 1926 award. Three pages, typed, signed below by company president George Waite; also original typed NAA Press Release on the awarding of the Collier Trophy to Hoffman for 1926. Fine.

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