Text from back of image: 'When the army's round-the-world planes arrive in Seattle on the first leg of their journey, they will be changed from land planes to water-going ships. In preparing for the change, pontoons are now being shipped to the...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "Contrary to general opinion, coast-to-coast airmail is not a one-plane-all-the-way proposition, but the remarkable speed and success of the plan is due to the use of 14 planes for each trip from New York to San Francisco,...
Text from back of image: 'Photo shows three of the U.S.army planes, which are on a round-the-world tour, seen as they arrived at Settle, where they are to join the fourth plane. From Seattle the four planes will start on one of the hardest laps of...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "Contrary to general opinion, coast-to-coast airmail is not a one-plane-all-the-way proposition, but the remarkable speed and success of the plan is due to the use of 14 planes for each trip from New York to San Francisco,...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "Contrary to general opinion, coast-to-coast airmail is not a one-plane-all-the-way proposition, but the remarkable speed and success of the plan is due to the use of 14 planes for each trip from New York to San Francisco,...
About to start on a Liberty Loan flight in one of the special postal planes built by the Standard Aircraft Corporation for the United States Post Office Department. Millions of circulars were dropped by this airplane in the course of the 4th...
Text from back of image: 'Their record flight over, the squadron of six Navy planes alights on the waters of Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian Naval Base, a little more than 24 hours after their take-off from San Francisco. The planes are from left to right:...
Text from back of image: 'Two of the squadron of United States planes which started from Los Angeles last week on what it is hoped wil be an epoch-making flight are shown flying over Northern California on the second stage of their 30,000 mile...
Text from back of image: 'Somewhere in the cold of Alaska, the round-the-world flyers are battling their way through bad weather conditions in their attempt to encircle the globe. After several hard-luck experiences at Seattle, the army airmen...
Text from back of image: 'The crews of the American and French planes shake goodbye to each other before the hopoff of the two planes for France and Rome.'
Text from back of image: "Photo shows left to right Antonio Locatelli, Italian war aviator and member of the Italian Parliament; Riiser M. Larsen, Norwegian navy lieutenant, and Ralph E. Davidson of the U.S. Navy. These three intrepid aviators...
Text from back of image: "Six army planes left San Francisco on Saturday to aid in the search for Clare A. Vance (above), U.S. airmail pilot, missing since Friday. Nothing has been heard from Vance since he left San Francisco for Reno, Nev. Airmail...
Text from back of mage: "Among the nearly two score planes in the fifth annual national air tour, this is the largest. It is a giant Curtiss-Condor. The planes took off from Detroit, Oct. 5."
Text from back of image: "Two hundred gallons of gasoline were transferred to the army tri-motored Fokker plane 'Question Mark,' 2500 feet above Dallas, TX, Dec. 20. The supply ship, a Douglass biplane, dropped a hose end while flying directly...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows Stephen Nemett of Chicago seated in a new type airplane just completed. His plane is different from anything yet built, the motor being a twelve cylinder affair which rotates and the upper part of the plane is...
Text from back of image: "An autogiro plane, recently brought to this country from England by Harold Pitcairn, president of the Pitcairn Aviation Company, known as the Cierva 'Windmill Craft,' with C. F. Faulkner at the controls, attained an...
