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