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Golden Age of Flight

The 20 years between WWI and WWII that witnessed the growth of the aviation industry, the rise of air shows and the development of the first airliner
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In the Museum: The Original Airliner

The Boeing 247 was the Dreamliner of its day.
January 2012 | By Rebecca Maksel

Tata (circa 1960) wrote copious memos to his staff about everything from inflight coffee (“it tasted like bean soup”) to crew hairstyles (one stewardess “had an enormous hair bun at the back, larger than her whole head. She looked ridiculous”).

Karachi to Bombay to Calcutta

The struggle to start Air-India.
November 2011 | By David Shaftel

By 1944, Ernest Taylor Pyle (in Normandy, France) had won millions of loyal readers and a Pulitzer.

On the Wing and On the Ground

Ernie Pyle's aviation and war dispatches.
September 16, 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

Dorothy Kilgallen in the 1930s, when she was a correspondent for the New York Evening Journal and International News

The Original Amazing Race

In October 1936, three journalists battled to circle the globe first.
September 01, 2011 | By The Editors

The China Clipper "scudded along a considerable sea swell" before vaulting into the air, reported Leo Kieran.

Moments and Milestones: Once Around

The 75th anniversary of a round-the-world trip.
September 2011 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

Ryan employees send the Spirit off to St Louis Lindbergh in jodhpurs is third from right Donald Hall second

A Mailplane for Lindbergh

Donald Hall's 1927 rush job.
July 2011 | By Tom Leech

Wings Over Washington

In more innocent times, it was okay to buzz the Capitol.
July 01, 2011 | By Roger Mola

Left to right: Bill Malloska, the airplane’s owner; Augie Pedlar, pilot; Manley Lawling, navigator, later replaced by Vilas Knope; and Mildred Doran, in classic uniform.

Above and Beyond: Aunt Mildred

A race across the Pacific.
March 2011 | By Richard A. Durose

Braniff Hostesses show off their Mexican-styled outfits in front of one of the airline

Long Live the DC-3

A new book documents the Douglas aircraft’s supremacy as a civilian and military transport.
November 15, 2010 | By Bruce McAllister

Scene from a Universal Newsreel, April 1930: Charles Lindbergh and his mother prepare to go flying.

Reel Aviation

Newsreels brought the excitement of aviation to millions of moviegoers in the 1930s. Now read the lost scripts.
November 12, 2010 | By Phillip W. Stewart

The postwar 11AC Chief (with a side of cheesecake) had 75 percent of parts in common with the Champion.

Flying Bathtubs Sell Like Hotcakes

The nation's first mass-produced lightplane started as a homely, humble homebuilt.
November 2010 | By Giles Lambertson

On July 14, 1938, thousands gathered for the return of Howard Hughes, who in four days had flown a Lockheed Super Electra around the world.

Brooklyn’s Jewel

A National Park Service project reclaims aviation history.
November 2010 | By David Shaftel

The Fairchild 71 was a popular choice for transporting freight and passengers in Alaska.

Bush Flying in Alaska

The former territory’s first pilots didn’t let snow, ice, and a lack of runways stop them from building a new industry.
September 28, 2010 | By Jim Rearden

The New York City skyline forms a lovely backdrop for the airfield.

Here’s Looking at You, Floyd Bennett

New York City’s first municipal airport couldn’t take a bad picture.
September 14, 2010 | By Diane Tedeschi

The "Texaco 13," the most famous Mystery Ship, set more than 200 speed records in the early 1930s.

Moments and Milestones: Travel Air’s Mystery Ship

September 2010 | By George C. Larson, Member, NAA

Cessna’s Citation X hasn’t played as many roles as its propeller-driven ancestors, but the business jet is speedier than all the rest.

Then and Now: Business Models

May 2010 | By Roger A. Mola

Antique aircraft enthusiasts Frank Pavliga and Ted Davis tinker with the Ford Model A engine on the Pietenpol Air Camper that has become a community property within the Brodhead Pietenpol Association.

The One-Dollar Pietenpol

Some airplanes, like some friendships, improve with age.
March 2010 | By Linda Shiner

<b><i>Why fly solo</b></i> when you can bring along a passenger? That’s probably what Bernard Pietenpol was thinking when he designed and built the Air Camper, a two-seat monoplane.<br><br> Pietenpol lived a simple life in rural Minnesota. When he wasn’t working in his television repair shop in Cherry Grove, he almost always had an airplane under construction: wood airframe, fabric covering, and an engine lifted from an automobile. And when the airplane was finished, it was put to use flying low and slow over acres of farmland. Pietenpol’s two sons, Kermit and Don, and his six grandchildren all grew up seeing their world from above. For the Pietenpol family, airplanes weren’t really a mode of transportation—a way to get from one point to another. Flying was a pleasure all its own, and getting aloft in an open-cockpit airplane was the best way to enjoy a long summer day. Generations of Pietenpol homebuilders agree.<br><br> Pictured above: Don often sat alongside his father, who resorted to strapping his son in with a men’s belt because the no-frills Air Campers had no safety harnesses.

A Family Affair

Bernard Pietenpol’s happiest moments came when he was flying one of his homebuilt airplanes—with a child or two in tow.
March 15, 2010 | By Diane Tedeschi

Cornelius Coffey was the first African-American to earn both pilot

The Other Harlem

In 1930s Chicago, at the corner of 87th Street and Harlem Avenue, Cornelius Coffey made aviation history.
March 2010 | By Giles Lambertson

Charles Lindbergh (left) and Harlan Gurney

Slim and Bud

Meet Charles Lindbergh the barnstormer—as he interviews his oldest flying buddy.
January 2010 | By Giacinta Bradley Koontz


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