
Orville Wright flight

1909 Virginia
The camel is bigger than the plane?

1920 Bi-plane

What a way to honeymoon!
Aviator, engineer, inventor

Frenchman Louis Blériot
U.K. circa 1930

Oh, to have space for your legs and seats this luxurious!
Flew 50 miles at 40mph

Orville Wright & Lt. Lahm
Posing by a plane, not a car

I had that outfit - and my father had that plane! (But no, that's not me.)
Amelia Earhart

Need we say more?
Rhumba Rita crashed

But it was WW II!
Jimmy Doolittle's 1922 cross country flight
So many people to prepare him to fly!
Christening a Sikorsky

Canadian Air Force, WW II
At the Mexican front, 1916

Famous French aviator Jules Védrines

"Fly Girl Betty"

She soloed just 1.5 months after joining the Apache Club.
World War II
Don't you love the nose art?
"Naval submarine plane"

1922
Young Charles Lindburgh

Can you spot him?
Lindburgh's plane

Orville & Wilbur Wright, 1909

1909 French airplane

What goes up . . .

Must come down?
The President's dog

Harding's dog (Laddie Boy) is identified, but not the female aviator!
First man in recorded flight

Orville Wright at about age 3
First man on the moon

Neil Armstrong at about age 10 (when he was born in 1930, the airplane was a new technology).
Dashing millionaire aviator

(Straight from central casting!)
Wright Brothers - and sister

Wilbur, Katherine, & Orville, 1907