Aviation Eras
Periods of innovation in the history of aviation from early flight to the modern age
Reflecting the Glow of Flight's Golden Age
Page through these vintage magazine covers and return to a time when the world was vast and air travel was grand.
March 2004 |
By Diane Tedeschi
The People and Planes of Santa Paula
There's a hard-to-define quality that can't be found on a flight chart or listed in an airport directory.
March 2004 |
By Marshall Lumsden
French Lessons
With their own country occupied by Germany, French air cadets came to Alabama to learn to fly. Vive la Dixie!
March 2004 |
By Janelle Dupont
Electro- mechanical Deicing
Ice kills. That's why engineers continue to invent new ways to keep it off airplane wings.
March 2004 |
By Tim Wright
Star Power
The plasma rocket, says U.S. astronaut Franklin Chang-DÃaz, is the propulsion technology of the future.
March 2004 |
By Beth Dickey
Australian Racing Moths
In the Great Australian Tiger Moth Race, it's not whether you win or lose, but whether you can stand that damned uncomfortable cockpit long enough to even finish.
March 2004 |
By Derek Grzelewski
My Ride on the Concorde
A museum curator goes along for one last transatlantic voyage.
March 2004 |
By Robert van der Linden
God Save the Vulcan!
The Royal Air Force Vulcan, immense cold war bomber and aerodynamic marvel, has been sentenced to permanent museum exhibition.
January 2004 |
By Craig Mellow
Air(show) Assault
With a Caribou, Mohawk, Bird Dog, Hueys, and Cobras, Army aviators are teaching the loudest history lesson you ever heard.
November 2003 |
By Shelby G. Spires
The Spin Debate
If spins can kill, why aren't pilots trained to handle them?
November 2003 |
By Joseph Bourque
Diamonds in the Wreck
Riches to rags and back again: A 1928 mailplane is reborn.
November 2003 |
By Sam Goldberg
Expert Witness
The EWO and the MIRV: Cold war talk for an RC-135 crew's lucky day.
November 2003 |
By Robert L. Brown
The Magical History Tour
Why are so many Golden Age airplanes traveling the country together this fall?
September 2003 |
By Mary Collins
Growing Pains
It's the one area of space science in which you get to eat the experiment.
September 2003 |
By Robert Zimmerman
The Comet Affair
Why the cold war forced the British government to choose between keeping a friend and arming an enemy.
September 2003 |
By Jeffrey A. Engel
Astronaut, Cosmonaut... Euronaut?
Space exploration may come naturally to Europeans, but it doesn't come easily.
September 2003 |
By William Triplett
Ground Proximity Warnings
Better technology is helping airline pilots keep a safe distance from terrain.
September 2003 |
By Damond Benningfield
Vang's War
How the fighting in Southeast Asia transformed a curious young man into a fiercely dedicated pilot.
September 2003 |
By Roger Warner
Yellow 10
Something about the Champlin Fighter Museum's Focke-Wulf 190D never seemed quite right.
September 2003 |
By Howard Stansfield
