Sunday, October 14, 2012




Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) and Nancy Hopkins (1909-1997) at the 1930 National Air Tour in Chicago, Illinois on September 12, 1930.

Original caption: Chicago September 12, 1930. Nancy Hopkins, the only woman on the Ford Reliability Tour is shown talking things over with Eddie Schneider holder of the junior cross-country records, just after she arrived in Chicago.

Source: World Wide Photo from the Nancy Hopkins Tier (1909–1997) collection at the International Women's Air & Space Museum archive.


Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) and Nancy Hopkins (1909-1997) at the 1930 National Air Tour in Chicago, Illinois on September 12, 1930.

Original caption: "Chicago September 12, 1930. Nancy Hopkins, the only woman on the Ford Reliability Tour is shown talking things over with Eddie Schneider holder of the junior cross-country records, just after she arrived in Chicago."

Source: World Wide Photo from the Nancy Hopkins Tier (1909–1997) collection at the International Women's Air & Space Museum archive.


From left to right are: Bertrand Blanchard Acosta (1895-1954), Gordon Berry (1898–?), and Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) returning form the Spanish Civil War in 1937 at Washington National Airport on an Eastern Airlines flight.

This image appeared in the Washington Post on January 20, 1937.

The original caption reads: "U.S. War Fliers Here to Explain. Back from flying war planes for the Loyalist Forces in Spain, Bert Acosta, Gordon berry and Eddie Schneider, left to right, landed at Washington Airport yesterday for conferences at the War and State Departments, where their adventures, exciting as they may have been, are looked upon as breaches of U.S. neutrality."

Friday, October 12, 2012



Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) in an autographed image dated June 28, 1931. The sign on his Cessna is for Richfield Aviation Gasoline.

Catalog #: 02-S-00201
Last Name: Schneider
First Name: Eddie
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/5022016284/in/photostream/