A 1927 Waco 10

Waco 10This is my grandfather Ernie Voisin standing with his daughter, my aunt Nora May as a little girl. This was taken at Houghton Lake, Michigan on July 4, 1927. 1  They went for a ride in this airplane, which appears to be a 1927 Waco 10.

On the back of this picture is written, “Houghton Lake; July 4, 1927; Dady & Noramay and the Airaplane they went up in.”  Here it is along with a montage of other unrelated, restored Waco 10 airplanes. 2

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Footnotes

  1. “Photographs,” Ernest Joseph Voisin and Nora May (Voisin) Downing standing next to a biplane, 1927, Houghton Lake, Michigan, Estate of John Ernest Voisin, Huntsville, Madison, Alabama.
  2. Photos of restored Waco 10 aircraft from three sources:  RC Groups (http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2397874 : downloaded 7 August 2016); Atlantic Flyer (http://www.aflyer.com/1102_c_antiqueattic.html : downloaded 7 August 2016); and Flickr, (http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/gxe,waco/Interesting : downloaded 7 August 2016).

Author: Mike

By way of background, I have over forty years experience as a software engineer. I enjoy genealogy as a hobby, which I started in earnest in 1994. I've always liked family history. Now whenever I uncover some fascinating fact about an ancestor, I also take time to read about that era in history. Whether it be the Napoleonic Wars, the Erie Canal, Steamships, the Port of Hamburg, or hurricane tracks, there's always something new to learn. By 2000 I published my family tree on the Internet. Unfortunately there were no software tools then that did precisely what I wanted. So I created GED-GEN, a Windows program to automatically generate a genealogy website. It converts a GEDCOM data file to a series of web pages in family group sheet format. Since 2002, people from all over the world have used GED-GEN for their websites. Today I continue to research my family history, with the help of distant cousins. I am also actively creating digital images of my collection of genealogical evidence.

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