Text from back of image: "Shown above is the 'Lieutenant Erwin Francis Conway, U.S. Navy Memorial Trophy," which will be presented to Lt. A.K. Morehouse, USN, representing the Miami, FL, Naval Reserve Aviataion base. The Miami base, has the highest...
Text on back of photo: 'Army officers gave all practical planes for the proposed round the world flight a careful study before picking one for the project. Photo shows from left to right, Captain Street, who headed the American fliers on their...
Model airplanes; Transcontinental flights; Air pilots;
Text from back of image: "Curtis (P-40) Warhawk excells its predecessors which have already …history in China, Libya, and Russia. Having a speed within the …this Allison powered fighter is equipped with a Curtiss propeller …of carrying an...
Test from back of image: "The above photo shows - Lt. Cmdr., Richard E. Byrd, U.S.A. retired who is to lead an independent expedition to the Polar regions this year. On this trip which is being financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr., Vincent Astor and...
Text from back of image: "The International Balloon race which started from Belgium a fortngiht ago was the most disastrous in history. Five aeronauts, including two American, were kiled, and another seriously injured. Two foreign and one...
Text from back of image: "The British unofficial round the world flight which will more or less compete with the American cruise got off from Southhampton recently in the 'Vulture' a hugh amphibian plane. First photo to reach this country shows the...
Text from back of image: "Wendell Pavey, well known auto dealer of Cincinnati, Ohio, and J.L. Bovis of Hamilton, Ohio, were instantly killed when the plane piloted by Bovis, in which they were flying to Akron, Ohio, to attend a golf meet, crashed...
Text from back of image: "This photo taken day following the crash of the tri-motored Ford sightseeing plane in which fourteen lost their lives in accident near the Newark, N.J. Airport on March 17th, shows investigators inspecting the wreckage of...
Text from back of image: "This photo taken the day following the crash of the tri-motored Ford sight seeing plane, in which 14 lost their lives, in accident near the Neark, New Jersey, airport, on March 17th, shows investigators inspecting the...
Text from back of image: "This photo taken day following the crash of the tri-motored Ford sightseeing plane in which fourteen lost their lives in accident near the Newark, N.J. Airport on March 17th., shows investigators inspecting the wreckage of...
Text from back of image: "Miss Clara Johnson, United Air Lines stewardess, points to the special markings on the 200-mile-an-hour Boeing twin-engined transport which Col. Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn flew in the 13,323-mile London-Melbourne...
Text from back of image: "Contrary to general opinion, coast-to-coast airmail is not a one-plane-all-the-way proposition, but the remarkable speed and success of the plan is due to the use of 14 planes for each trip from New York to San Francisco,...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "The sorting of air mail while en route in the plane just as is done on railway mail cars, is predicted as a necessary time-saver in the future transportation of mail in the flying post offices of the future. The mail will...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "Harry Doucett, inventor of 'Wings' a parachute designed to save both plane and pilot alike is shown in the above picture seated in the plane which will test out the giant parachute. The invention will be used by a large...
Text from back of image: "This aerial picture taken from the Goodyear blimp 'Volunteer' shows the Griffith Observatory and Hall of Science situated in the mountains, overlooking Hollywood, which has just been completed. Unique in that it will be...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows Stephen Nemett of Chicago seated in a new type airplane just completed. His plane is different from anything yet built, the motor being a twelve cylinder affair which rotates and the upper part of the plane is...
Text from back of image: "The aeroplane in which Mr. Mollison made his record flight, surrounded by holiday-makers after the forced landing at Pevensey. He landed on the shingle, but willing hands pushed the machine to a point where he was able to...
Text from back of image: "Here is shown the first photo of the latest British all metal Boulton and Paul battle plane which has been especially built for the Air Ministry. The above photo shows the P 15 with the covering removed showing the metal...
Text from back of image: "The ZMC-2, America's first all-metal dirigible airship landed at Grosse Ile, Airport Detroit (Mich.) last night after its initial flight test. The big metal ship, piloted by Captain William C. Kepner, one of the country's...
Watercolor drawing by R. G. Skerrett - (written on bottom) - Naval and military bases may hereafter be safeguarded aloft by buoyant barriers that spread entanglements for unwary hostile aviators. It is probably something of this sort which the...
