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Pan American Airways pioneered commercial airline service to Latin America and the Caribbean in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when air travel was first developing into a viable form of transportation.
This image was posted on November 01, 2021.
#paainca #panam #avgeek #earlyaviation
In August 1929, the German airship, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin completed an ambitious, 21-day, round-the-world trip sponsored by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.
This image was posted on August 08, 2019.
#grafzeppelin #zeppelin #avgeek #aviation #earlyaviation
#Onthisday in 1909, Louis Blériot successfully landed his plane in Dover, England, after flying from Calais, France.
This image was posted on July 25, 2019.
#blériot #earlyaviation #avgeek #aviationhistory
During the 1920s and early 1930s, airlines found it very difficult to make a profit in commercial aviation without a lucrative airmail route contract.
This image was posted on October 19, 2018.
#tdih #panamerican #earlyaviation #airmail #aviationhistory #panam #avgeek #paa #fairchild #fokker #earlyaviation #keywest #florida #havana #cuba
As the twentieth century neared, the balloon had been in existence for over a hundred years and, except for a small number of newly introduced airships and gliders, was the most prevalent form of aviation up to that time.
This image was posted on October 18, 2018.
#intotheether #hotairballoon #hotairballoons #balloon #balloons #ballooning #avgeek #aeronaut #earlyaviation #bayareahistory #oakland #1900s
#OnThisDay in 1935, the first of three Martin M-130 flying boats was delivered to Pan American Airways.
This image was posted on October 09, 2018.
#chinaclipper #panam #earlyaviation #avgeek #paa #panamerican #flyingboats #transpacific
During the late nineteenth century, aeronauts tested the practical capabilities of the balloon with newly introduced technologies such as photography.
This image was posted on August 16, 2018.
#intotheether #hotairballoon #hotairballoons #balloon #balloons #ballooning #avgeek #aeronaut #earlyaviation #book #bookstagram
Susan Hale (1833-1910) edited the six numbers of the Balloon Post, a news sheet in 1871 about airmail via balloon to raise funds for the relief of French war refugees from the Franco-Prussian War.
This image was posted on August 03, 2018.
#intotheether #hotairballoon #hotairballoons #balloon #balloons #ballooning #avgeek #aeronaut #earlyaviation #susanhale #balloonpost #airmail #womeninaviation
Have you ever been in a hot air balloon?
This image was posted on July 06, 2018.
#intotheether #hotairballoon #hotairballoons #balloon #balloons #ballooning #france #versailles #avgeek #aeronaut #earlyaviation
In the 1940s, young aviatrix, Maxine Crookston (Schmidt) was photographed gassing up her single engine airplane.
This image was posted on September 20, 2017.
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In 1961, the Nut Tree Restaurant commissioned its first Chavez model after Edwin Power, a pilot and one of the restaurant's owners, had seen Chavez's work in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum.
This image was posted on July 29, 2017.
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Happy Birthday Amelia Earhart!
This image was posted on July 24, 2017.
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