Text from back of image: "Sometimes called the Super Fortress, this Titan of the air had a wing spread 45 feet greater than the Y1B-17. The XB-15 weighed 13 tons more, was 20 feet longer and three feet higher. Because of its extreme weight (35...
Text from back of image: "Led by the city of Detroit, six balloons tonight were floating northeast over Lake Erie after being cheered by 200,000 as they took off from Cleveland Airport late today in the nineteenth Gordon Bennett International...
Text from back of image: 'Fighting through chill arctic winds and snow storms, the three U.S. army round the world fliers, under command of Lieut. Lowell Smith, above, negotiated the 878-mile flight from Attu Island to Paramashiru Island, thereby...
Text on back 'A day at Pensacola Air Station. In August, 35 aviation cadets of the Naval Reserve will join the U.S. fleet and take their place with naval aviators of the regular service in the aircraft squadrons. New corps of the Navy to complete...
Text from back of image: "The aerial hobo has appeared as a deluxe counterpart of his earthly contemporaries. In fact he is none other than a distinguished officer of the U.S. Army air service - Lieut. Frank E. Benedict who has departed from Clover...
Text from back of image: 'This photo shows Lieut. Smith. U.S. round-world flier, jumping from one gun to another aboard the sunken Von Hindenburg, flagship of the German battle fleet which was scuttled at Scapa Flow in 1918. The picture was taken...
Text from back of image: "After successfully crossing the Atlantic and after completing 3,000 miles of his proposed 3,800-mile flight, Lieut. Felix Waitkus, U.S. airman, was forced down by lack of gas and crashed in a field near Ballinrobe, County...
Text from back of image: "The U.S. Naval Air Scouts, shown above, operating with the surface fleet in the winter maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea, anchored off Haiti after their annual migration to southern waters."
Text from back of image: "Photo shows Ernesto Merlanti pilot on the new seaplane that dropped into Lake Michigan having his cuts and bruises attended by physicians on the U.S.S. Wilmette."
