Text from back of image: "Still in the lead of the Women's Transcontinental Air Derby, Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden of Pittsburgh, PA, appeared over the Cleveland Municipal Airport at 2:14 p.m., Aug. 26th, completing the last leg of the Santa...
Text from back of image: "Ted Wells of Wichita (Kas) flashed over the finishing line of the National Air Races at Cleveland today winning the air derby from Portland (Ore) with an elapsed time of 14 hours, 44 minutes and 10 seconds. He flew a...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows Lieut. F. W. Wead, US navy aviator who with A. W. Gorton, another US navy aviator will compete for the Schneider Cup in the Great International Air Race to be held over England next month. Officials at the...
Text from back of image: "Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden of Pittsburgh (PA) stepped from her Travelair plane at Cleveland Airport this afternoon, the winner of the Women's Air Derby from Santa Monica (CA). Mrs. Thaden's actual flying time for the...
Text from back of image: "The above photo shows George E. Halsey of Kansas City (MO), winner of the Miami to Cleveland Air Derby as he arrived at the Cleveland Airport this afternoon."
Text from back of image: "Photo shows the Verville-Sperry monoplane, which is claimed will be able to make 250 miles per hour and will be piloted by Lieut. Elex Pearson in the Pulitzer Air Race. Another feature of this monoplane is that the landing...
Text from back of image: "Captain de Haviland, flying a De Haviland Moth won the King's Cup Air Race, which started and finished at Hatfield Aerodrom, Herts, England, pictured receiving the Winner's Trophy from (?)"
Text from back of image: "Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden of Pittsburgh (PA) stepped from her Travelair plane at Cleveland Airport this afternoon, the winner of the Women's Air Derby from Santa Monica (CA). Mrs. Thaden's actual flying time for the...
Text from back of image: "Here is the Mulvihill model trophy which will be the prize of the winner of the airplane races to be held in St. Louis on October 2nd."
Text from back of image: "Nearly 40 planes of various kinds, shown above, took off from Detroit Oct. 5 on the 5,000-mile fifth annual national air tour."
Text from back of image: "John Livingston (right) who won the National Air Tour which ended at Ford Airport, Dearborn, Oct. 21. Art Davis (left) of Lansing, MI took second place."
Text from back of photo: 'Capt. Roscoe Turner, chief pilot for the Nevada Air Lines flew from the Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, California to Albuquerque, NM in five hours and 15 minutes. Immediately after refueling and breakfast the flyer...
Text from back of photo: 'Capt. Roscoe Turner, chief pilot for the Nevada Air Lines flew from the Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, California to Albuquerque, NM in five hours and 15 minutes. Immediately after refueling and breakfast the flyer...
Caption: "Air Mail Pilots Shirley J. Short (in machine) and Harry G. Smith flew into Washington today with their machine loaded down with air mail letters for Charles A. Lindbergh, their buddy of the Air Mail service. Short flies between Cleveland...
Caption: "Harry Huking, veteran air mail pilot, elected president of the Flying Mail Carriers Association. Photo shows Harry Huking, with nine years experience flying the mail and more than five thousand hours in the air, who is the new president...
A controversy is developing in the ranks of TWA, The Lindbergh Line over the question are passengers in the Douglas airliners going to consume so much more food while flying that the cost of feeding them is going to show a sharp advance? The...
Air freight handled by the 16 scheduled trunk airlines during the first six months of this year was up an estimated 156 percent over the same period in 1947, a total of 30,723,010 freight ton miles as compared with 11,984,214. This trailer-truck,...
