These vintage photos show what air travel looked like between 1930s to 1950s
From the early days of flight and the "golden age of travel", to modern-day airlines…
Tag: Aviation
The Dornier Do X: The world’s largest ‘flying boat’ that could barely get off the ground, 1929-1933
The Dornier Do-X was the largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the wor…
Vintage color photos show WWII air cadets in training at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, 1942
This collection of photos from Naval Air Station Corpus Christi during World War…
Rare photographs of NASA’s massive wind tunnels used to test aircraft, 1925-1990
All NASA craft must undergo complete testing through one of the administration’s…
Airship R33 in amazing pictures, 1919-1925
The airship R33 was built by Armstrong Whitworth and was completed after the end…
Rare pictures of the first flight expedition over Everest, 1933
Originally the idea for a flight expedition over Mount Everest was proposed in 1…
Autogyro: The photographic story of early plane-helicopter hybrids, 1925-1940
A Spanish engineer and aeronautical pioneer, Juan de la Cierva, developed the or…
Rare photographs of military observation balloons of World War I, 1914-1918
Observation was an incredibly important role for aerial warfare in World War I. …
R-100 airship: Rare photographs inside a “flying hotel”, 1929-1930
The R100 airship was built as part of a British government programme to develop …
Test pilot George Aird ejected from his Lightning F1 aircraft, 1962
This is the story behind the famous picture of the test pilot George Aird ejecte…
The raids and brutal reprisals of World War Two through rare photographs, 1942
The events of 1942 were crucial in the way that World War Two played out. The fi…
The story in pictures of the massive Hughes H-4 Hercules, 1945-1947
The largest wooden airplane ever constructed and flown only one time, the H-4 He…
World War II: The bloody war spreads around the globe, 1940-1941
On April 9, 1940, Germany simultaneously invaded Norway and occupied Denmark, an…
The Allied Invasion of Europe in photographs, 1943-1945
Starting with the Invasion of Sicily in July of 1943, and culminating in the Jun…
Flying first class in the 1960s seen through amazing photographs
Life was once simpler. There was only one class for passengers on airline flight…
The forgotten era of the Airships in rare photographs, 1900s-1940s
The history of airships begins, like the history of hot air balloons, in France.…
Attack on Pearl Harbor in rare pictures, 1941
The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor began just before 8 a.m. local time…
MiG-21 crashed into an East German apartment block, 1975
On January 14th, 1975, Major Peter Makowicka, aged 33, was on a training mission…
Battle of Britain in rare pictures, 1940
In the summer and fall of 1940, German and British air forces clashed in the ski…
Loading passengers onto an airship from a mooring mast, 1930s
In the 1920s and 1930s airship mooring masts were built in many countries. A moo…