This Jenny, seen landing at Mineola Airport in Long Island, was flown by Richard Depew, who finished 22nd in the speed race and fifth in the handicap race. Seen on the ground is a new three-engined Eagle intended by Curtiss as a post-war airliner.
Great aerial adventures followed in the wake of World War I as aviation tried to find its post-war role.
It was a period of conquest of the oceans and continents — the NC-4 across the Atlantic via the Azores; Alcock and Brown’s first non-stop flight from Canada to Ireland; the R-34 airship’s first round-trip flight from Europe to America; and the start of large scale aerial competition.
June 25, 1919, saw the announcement of an International Aerial Derby, which would start simultaneously from Toronto and New York’s Mineola Field Aug. 25.
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