Text from back of image: "Cutting one third from present flying time between New York and the Pacific Coast, 20-hour coast to coast flying time was instituted June 11th by the United Air Lines. The new schedule also reduces the flying time between...
Text from back of photo: George E. Russell, aerial photographer of San Francisco, and Bob Hancock, wellknown pilot, landed on what is believed to be the highest landing field in the world when they made a trip recently and landed in the Templeman...
While it would be possible to fly the Lockheed Constellation across the country non-stop in less than 9 hours, in actual scheduled service-allowing for one stop-it coud carry this group from Los Angeles to New York in less than 10 hours. This...
A controversy is developing in the ranks of TWA, The Lindbergh Line over the question are passengers in the Douglas airliners going to consume so much more food while flying that the cost of feeding them is going to show a sharp advance? The...
Text from back of image: 'The above photo shows Captain W.R. Gheradi, new aide to Secretary of Navy Wilbur, in the seat of his seaplane, after flying from Hampton Roads to Washington to interview his chief. Tuesday May 6-24. Capt. W.R. Gheradi will...
Text from back of image: 'Meet the safest aviator in the world, Capt. H.D Campbell, United States Marine Corps. He has flown 2500 hours, probably 250,000 miles, since he became an aviator in 1921, with a perfect record of safe flights and landings....
Text from back of image: "Blaine M. Tuxhorn is shown with his synchronized ejector 'cannon' by which he and a co-pilot expect to load fuel on a Barling NB-3 monoplane while in full flight and remain aloft more than 60 hours. The container held by...
Text from back of photo: "Two hours to Boston by seaplane is the schedule of the new Airvia Line which opened July 22nd, with two Savoia-Marchetti, 12-passenger planes, at North Beach, Long Island. Miss Ruth Montgomery was only woman passenger on...
Text from back of photo: 'Capt. Roscoe Turner, chief pilot for the Nevada Air Lines flew from the Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, California to Albuquerque, NM in five hours and 15 minutes. Immediately after refueling and breakfast the flyer...
Text from back of photo: At that, Captain Roscoe Turner got to New York from Glendale, Calif., with a navigator and three passengers, in 19 hours 51 minutes, after making four stops for fuel. He had hoped to make the trip in 18 hours. Photo shows...
Text from back of photo: 'Capt. Roscoe Turner, chief pilot for the Nevada Air Lines flew from the Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, California to Albuquerque, NM in five hours and 15 minutes. Immediately after refueling and breakfast the flyer...
Text from back of photo: 'Dale (Red) Jackson and Forest O'Brien, St. Louis fliers, are tuning up their endurance plane to break record now held by the Hunter brothers of Sparta, Ill., which is 553 hours, 41 minutes. Prior to the Hunter boys feat...
Table of Contents: Crazy Horse, the granite image; Clothes with lasting memories; Mists for a masculine market; TV's finest hours; Film for faster filing; big change in small change; Gems of the ocean; The Thinking man's toy takes on bigger tasks;...
Table of Contents: What price Cellophane; Motion pictures talk; Show shoe heels will not scuff; A few lines on Acele coat linings; Luggage styles; Smart sports coats; The copper mining industry in Chile; Eight hours of warmth in wintry weather;...
Table of Contents: Prices, wages and hours; Emphasis on health; Natty knitwear; Mining black-jack; Fair doings; Of tidal waves and pennies; Neoprene, rubber and rubber chemicals; Tags; What's new.
Letter to his father informing him of his new residence in Boston while he attends MIT. He also asks for more money on account of having to spend so much for schoolbooks and other supplies. William also mentions that he is concerned for his eyes...
Typed captions: "Can't wait: After waiting for hours to buy nylons after they went on sale post World War II, this young woman couldn't wait to get home to put them on." "Royal welcome home was given nylon as it made its post-war appearance in...
Includes articles: After Hours with the Morse Workers (about the monthly meeting of the Employees' Association); Upholding the Cause of the Private Ship Yard; Exit "Sophie" - Enter "Tusitala"; Extensive Alterations on the St. Mihiel; Famous S.S....
This photograph which is the most remarkable marine picture ever made stands alone in a class by itself. It shows a condition at sea never before pictured by the camera. That the crew of the sinking vessel ever escaped at all is as remarkable as...
Attractive Florence Naum, Ford Motor Companys only woman electrical technician, tests a generator regular quality control machine at the Ypsilanti MI plant. A resident of nearby Farmington, Miss Naum has been with the company for almost ten years....