Object Details
- Summary
- These "non-shatterable" flying goggles belonged to Chauncey Spencer. In 1939 Spencer flew with Dale White in an open-cockpit airplane from Chicago to New York to Washington, D.C. to promote racial equality in civil and military aviation. At the nation's capital, Spencer met with Harry S. Truman, then a senator from Missouri, and other political leaders to advocate an end to racial exclusion in aviation.
- Data Source
- National Air and Space Museum
- Date
- 1939
- Credit Line
- Gift of Chauncey E Spencer II
- Materials
- brass, glass, cellulose-based resin, textile, foamed rubber, synthetic fiber textile
- Dimensions
- Overall: 17 × 2.5 × 7cm, 0.2kg (6 11/16 × 1 × 2 3/4 in., 3/8lb.)
- Type
- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Helmets & Headwear
