Research Papers

The purposes of the JAHP include providing accurate information about James “Jimmie” Crawford Angel (1899-1956) his associates, and their era of aviation and exploration with an emphasis on exploration in Venezuela during the 1920s through the 1940s. Permission to quote from the JAHP research papers may be obtained by contacting Archive@jimmieangel.org.

JAHP maintains an archive of photographs, documents, unpublished and published materials that is shared by appointment with journalists, filmmakers, museum curators, teachers and students.

◊ Karen Angel. UP and Away to Angel Falls and Paradise Falls. 2013. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the American Popular Culture Association Conference, Animation Section, Boston, Massachusetts, 11 April 2012. After this paper was published in 2013, the date of discovery of Angel Falls was verified to be 16 November 1933, not 18 November 1933.

◊ Karen Angel. Why the World’s Tallest Waterfall is Named Angel Falls. Terrae Incognita, The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries, Vol. 44 No. 1, April 2012. After this paper was published in 2012, the date of discovery of Angel Falls was verified to be 16 November 1933, not 18 November 1933.

◊ Karen Angel. The Truth about Jimmie Angel and Angel Falls. Presented at the First International Alexander von Humboldt Conference in 2001. Published in the conference proceedings: Homage to Alexander von Humboldt. Travel Literature to and from Latin America XV through XXI Centuries, Pp 531-538, Jorge L. Martinez, Editor.

◊ Karen Angel, Editor. A Plant Hunter’s Paradise: Angel Falls – Churún Vena – Salto Angel and Auyántepui. A Venezuelan Botanical Report in Photographs, Edition II.

◊ Peter Bruemmer. The Flamingo. January 2011.

◊ Jorge M. González. Ruth Robertson: Grande Dame of Angel Falls. 2020.

◊ Jorge M. González. On the Trail of Angel Falls. Neither the Pacaraima Waterfall nor El Gran Salto del Caroní. 2023.

1930 JIMMIE ANGEL & ALBATROSS — © Jimmie Angel Historical Project Archive
Jimmie Angel, second from left, was the test pilot for the world’s largest land airplane, the Albatross, in 1930 at the Burbank Airport near Los Angles, California.

Notes

Unless quoting from another source or authoring a paper in an historical context, the JAHP attempts to consistently use Auyántepui when writing in English and Auyántepuy when writing in Spanish.

Tepui or Tepuy: According to the Royal Academy of Spanish Language (Real Academia de la Lengua Espanola) the correct Spanish spelling is tepuy, in plural, tepuyes. In English the spelling should be tepui; the plural is tepuis. Tepui is the correct form to write the Pemón word “tepú” when it is used on compound words in possessive case, i.e., Ptari-tepui, Auyán-tepui, Wei-tepui.