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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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Aeronautics, May 1930.

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

From a 1950 Navion on final approach, the Topatopa mountains loom large.

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

Passengers board 5339 three weeks before its 1928 crash.

Diamonds in the Wreck

Riches to rags and back again: A 1928 mailplane is reborn.
November 2003 | By Sam Goldberg

By 1927, airplanes were a national craze. At the original tour’s stop in Boston, crowds gathered for a closer look at the Ford 4-AT Tri-motor.

The Magical History Tour

Why are so many Golden Age airplanes traveling the country together this fall?
September 2003 | By Mary Collins

A 1942 Fairchild PT-19 Army Air Forces trainer, now owned by Wayne Boggs in Plant City, Florida, wears a Sensenich wood prop, model W86RA-61, for authenticity, and the prop even has original Sensenich decals.

Good Wood

Wooden propellers are like Louisville Sluggers: The distance.
July 2003 | By Tom Harpole

On display at the Reno Air Races, the rule was “look, but don’t touch.” And best wear sunglasses, lest the highly polished aluminum skin sear your retinas.

Silver Bullet

No airplane in the world could outshine Howard Hughes' H-1 Racer--until Jim Wright built a copy of it.
May 2003 | By Preston Lerner

The first circumnavigators were the Douglas World Cruisers.

Moments & Milestones: The Greatest Great Circle

May 2002 | By Stuart Nixon

An XC-35 in flight.

How Things Work: Cabin Pressure

Why you remain conscious at 30,000 feet.
January 2002 | By George C. Larson

Oldies & Oddities: The LIttle Steel Strike Airlift

July 2001 | By Robert G. Pushkar

A rugged amphibian, the Grumman G-21 served both commercial airlines and militaries alike.  The U.S. Coast Guard flew the JRF version as a transport and anti-submarine aircraft.

In the Museum: Beautiful Goose

May 2001 | By F. Robert van der Linden

Oldies & Oddities: Body by Erco

March 2001 | By Lester A. Reingold

Flights & Fancy: The Light Brigade

January 2001 | By Walter S. Terry

U.S. Air Mail personnel with a De Havilland DH-4 mailplane at the Bellefonte, Pennsylvania airfield, December 1923.

Slim Lewis Slept Here

Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, had one brief, shining moment when airmail pilots used it as a stopover. Then they went away, leaving only memories.
October 1991 | By Donald Dale Jackson

The Schneider Trophy

It began as the prize for a seaplane race. It ended as the symbol of a contest among nations that foreshadowed war.
June 1988 | By Ron Dick


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