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: "The waters of Timor Sea or the wild uninhabited shores of Northwestern Australia, on May 20th, cloaked the whereabouts of two English aviators, Flight Lieutenant J. Moir and flying officer H. Owen. The two flyers left...
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: "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: "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: "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: "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: "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 from back of image: "Photo - Mrs. Julliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of America takes flight over NYC in a plane for first time. Photo - Lawrence Driggs, pres. of the Flying Club of America, pointing out the route of the trip to Mrs....
Text from back of image: "Successful tests were conducted recently at the Farborough Experimental Station, Hampshire, England, with a new land catapult, the only device of its kind in the world. A giant bombing plane, weighing nine tons was...
Illustration from Airopaidia: Containing the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion published in 1786 by Thomas Baldwin; "A Balloon Prospect from Above the Clouds"
Text from back of image: "This collosal water tower at Nassau, Bahamas, 210 feet above sea level and topped by a revolving light serves as a guide to the air liners of the Pan-American services. From its top, reached by elevator, a view for 30...
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: "Photo shows the Fairchild cabin monoplane, from which engineers of the Bell Laboratories, recently conducted successful tests of a new means of plane ground telephone inter-communication. Newspapermen aloft in the ship...
Text from back of image: "A very spectacular scene was staged during the great air pageant, at Yoyogi Fields, in Japan, when over a hundred airplanes staged a 'smoke battle' up among the clouds. This photo shows two of the planes making a smoke...
Text from back of image: "A view of the modern airship shed, at Karachi, India which is to be used in the airship service between England and India. This was made as the port was officially completed by the insertion of the final bolt, in the...
Text from back of image: 'While the three United States round-the-world planes which reached Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, waited vainly for Major Martin, flight commander to catch up with them, a new motor was installed in Lieutenant Wade's plane....
Text from back of image: "Essex, England - a plane making a low-flying attack on a sand-bagged machine gun emplacement of the westland forces 'somewhere in Essex' as England's greatest aerial maneuvers get under way. With 900 Royal Air Force planes...
