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Aviation Eras

Periods of innovation in the history of aviation from early flight to the modern age
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Otto Praeger

The Father of Airmail Looks Back

On the 20th anniversary of airmail service, three key players recalled the early days.
September 17, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

In 1923, U.S. Air Mail DH-4s were equipped with lights on the nose and on wingtips for night flying.

No Longer Afraid of the Dark

The civil engineering project that got the airmail through the night.
September 16, 2008 | By Linda Shiner

Airmail pilots (from left) Jack Knight, Harvey Lange, Lawrence Garrison, “Wild Bill” Hopson, and Andrew Dunphy pose for photographer Nathaniel Dewell in 1922.

The Image Maker

During the 1920s, photographer Nathaniel Dewell produced iconic portraits of airmail’s finest.
September 12, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

A crashed Martin MB-1 mailplane, one of many in the service

Crash Course

Finding an airplane to deliver the mail should have been easy.
September 12, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

San Dimas, California, a suburb of Lost Angeles, boasts a population of 36,200.

A Flying Success

For an entire week in 1938, the country celebrated airmail.
September 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

Addison Pemberton pilots his restored Boeing 40C earlier this year. On the September 10 flight, the author rode in the compartment beneath the upper wing.

A Ride in the Boeing 40C

Onboard “Airmail 1” for the first leg of the trip, from New York to Bellefonte.
September 11, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

After his career with the airmail service, Knight flew for United Airlines between 1934 and 1937, when the airline was still flying single engine Boeing aircraft. By the time Knight retired, he had flown more than 2 million miles.

Crossing the Alleghenies in 1919

The man who saved the airmail describes “Hell Stretch.”
September 09, 2008 | By Jack Knight

Landing field at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, October 1935. Note the "large white circle" called out in the directions.

The Route: Long Island to Cleveland

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.
September 03, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

Aerial view of an airmail light beacon tower, somewhere along the New York to Chicago route, in the mid-1920s.

The Route: Cleveland to Iowa City

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.
September 03, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

DH-4 mailplanes at Fort Crook airfield, Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1920s.

The Route: Iowa City to North Platte

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.
September 03, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

A light beacon tower (used for night flying) on the airmail field in North Platte, Nebraska in the mid-1920s. The field boundary light is visible in the right foreground.

The Route: North Platte to Rock Springs

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.
September 03, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

A Varney Air Lines Swallow outside the airmail hangar at Elko, Nevada in April 1926.

The Route: Rock Springs to Reno

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.
September 03, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

Reno, Nevada, Postmaster Austin Jackson (left) hands a mail bag to pilot Harry Huking in his DH-4 mailplane, July 1924.

From Reno to San Francisco

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.
September 03, 2008 | By The Editors

The shadow of their lander dominates a mosaic of the numbered photos Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took out their window before leaving the moon.

Finding Apollo

Forty years later, we’re about to see what the moonwalkers left behind.
September 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

USS Intrepid

Restoration: USS Intrepid

Cleaning up an aircraft carrier.
September 2008 | By Phil Scott

colossal cargo airplanes

Big Idea

Megalifters prove you’re never too fat to fly.
September 2008 | By Kara Platoni

The book that robbed the enemy of his secrets. A key to shapes shows a circle can be a haystack or a gun emplacement.

Portrait of the Enemy

Photographs taken from the world’s first warplanes changed the course of battle.
September 2008 | By Robin White

Above & Beyond: I Have a Flameout

September 2008 | By Richard G. Woodhull, Jr.

1908: The Year the Airplane Went Public

Five years after Kitty Hawk, the Wrights finally showed the world their invention.
August 29, 2008 | By Tom D. Crouch

Feng and assistants with the Feng Ru 2 in Guangdong, China

The Father of Chinese Aviation

Feng Ru made history on the California coast, then introduced airplanes to his native land.
August 13, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel


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