LT. THOMAS BARRETT
  

 
 
 
 
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1922
  
 
Pasadena War Aviator Hopes to Revolutionize
Commerce of World with New Type of Aircraft
  
 

GREAT FUTURE
SEEN IN AIR
COMMERCE
Southwest Now Occupies
Strategic Position,
Says Aviator
DEPICTS FUTURE
AS HE VIEWS IT
 

 
 
A flying fantasy
"Pasadena War Aviator Hopes to Revolutionize Commerce of World with New Type of Aircraft," read a headline in the development section of the Star-News on June 24, 1923. Lieutenant Thomas Barrett, a World War I aviator, said he had been issued a patent for an airplane combined with a dirigible. As pictured here, it was a biplane enclosing eight engines, with a dirigible body, and a capacity between 150 to 200 passengers. His article describes a fantasy of a flight with soft landings on land or sea.

Researched and written by volunteer Sid Gally at the Pasadena Museum of History. Open to the public Wednesday through Sunday at 470 W. Walnut St. Exhibit halls and museum store open noon to 5 p.m.; library and archives 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.; mansion tours at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.pasadenahistory.org;
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I have no information as to the dates of his birth or his death.
 
Editor's Note:
If you have any more information on this pioneer aviator,
please contact me.
E-mail to Ralph Cooper
 
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