Resembling a horde of huge insets, these Bell H-13D helicopters are lined up at the Niagara Fall Municipal Airport prior to beginning the long journey to Korea where they are urgently needed by the Army Field Forces. Helicopters of this and other...
Headquarters of most of the major oil companies or their branches now operating in the Canadian West, Calgary and its municipal airport provide a base for more than 40 executive type of aircraft. These range up to and include DC-3s. Calgary's...
The Boeing 707 prototype, Americas first jet transport, lifted from the Renton municipal airport runway adjacent to The Boeing Company plant where it was built as thousands of spectators watched, some from the roofs of nearby buildings. Ushering in...
All clear and ready for take-off with three tons of parts for the Edgewater plant of the Ford Motor Company. Routine flights from Detroit to Teterboro Airport, near the New Jersey plant, are made nightly by Meteor. Pilot Matt Byrns is receiving...
To introduce the 1949 Lincoln, Mercury and Ford cars to the public, the News Bureau prepared and distributed press packets which were sent to all daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and radio stations. Pictures were obtained by sending...
Text from back of image: 'Photo shows Capt. D. Coste and Maurice Bellonte, receiving the congratulations of one of their admirers, at Curtiss Airport, Long Island, as they returned after successfully completing their flight to Dallas, Texas, for...
Text from back of photo (caption in fragments - some pieces missing): 'Photo shows L. to R. (next to officer) Mrs. Roy L. Mitchell, Roy L. Mitchell, Mrs. Byron K. Newcomb, Byron K. Newcomb, and Eddie Stinson, designer of the plane used in breaking...
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 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: "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: "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: 'Flying the same plane in which Clarence Chamberlin crossed the Atlantic, Captain J. E. Boyd, took off from Floyd Bennett Airport in New York City on June 11th on a projected non-stop good will flight to Port-Au-Prince,...
Text from back of image: 'Photo shows Capt. Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, surrounded by the throngs of their admirers, that turned out to greet them on arrival at airport in Washington, D.C. from New York. They will have luncheon with...
Text from back of image: 'Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte, French Paris-to-New York fliers, returned to Curtiss Airport, Sept. 9th, from their official reception in Washington, D.C. While en-route they dropped a wreath of dahlias, the gift of...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "The sorting of air mail while en route in the plane just as is done on railway mail cars, is predicted as a necessary time-saver in the future transportation of mail in the flying post offices of the future. The mail will...
