Ryan NYP Right Cockpit Entry Door and Strut Fairing Detail (Plate #3114) (1927)

Close-up photograph plate 3114 of the right cockpit door, rectangular window, and landing gear strut fairing. — Ryan NYP Right Cockpit Entry Door and Strut Fairing Detail (Plate #3114) (1927) · Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

An archival engineering photograph (negative plate #3114) providing a close-up study of the right cockpit entrance door of the Spirit of St. Louis. The image details the fabric-doped door panel flush with the fuselage skin, the rectangular observation window, the door seam hinge line, and the welded steel-tube landing gear strut intersection with its aerodynamic fairing. Below the fuselage, the streamline-faired shock strut and fabric-covered wire landing wheel are detailed, documenting the enclosed aerodynamic cockpit enclosure engineered by Donald A. Hall.