William K. Vanderbilt Jr.‘s 1937 Book “Flying Lanes”
William K. Vanderbilt Jr. documented his 1937 South American trip in his Sikorsky S-43 amphibian plane in a limited edition book Flying Lanes.
At the 2013 Doyle Auction of the Estate of Consuelo Vanderbilt Earl, I was the winning bidder for Consuelo's copy of the book signed by her father. Here are the key pages and photos from the book.
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
The inscription in the book reads:
Dearest Consuelo:
I thought you might like to have this little book
affectionately
Father
Consuelo Vanderbilt and her father as seen in 1932.
A chart of the Flying Lanes
The itinerary
At Willie K.'s Fisher Island Florida base.
The crew: Earle White (left) and Henry Gerstung (right)
Willie K. and the Sikorsky S-43 as seen in 1934.
Comments
Great find; thanks, Howard,m for sharing! May I please sneak in my on-going plea for one of your ever-increasing circle of readers to help find a missing similar privately-published WKV, Jr., book(let), the heavily-illustrated one he had done about the construction of the LIMP, <http://sbiii.com/limpkwy0.html#limpbklt>? Sam, III