The Travel Air Manufacturing Company made ‘Travel-Air’ planes from 1926-1932 in historic Wichita, Kansas, The Air Capital of the World, on East Central Avenue. […]
Find out more of the man that flew the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer […]
Following the Depression, 1934 antitrust legislation prevented airframe manufacturers from owning mail-carrying airlines. […]
, is compelling reading for the author has a rare gift in his sometimes magisterial writing, that of projecting situational awareness. […]
After Charles “Lucky” Lindbergh made the first solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris in a Ryan monoplane in 1927, there was a tremendous surge of interest in aviation. […]
At two-forty-five PM on a smoggy August 23, 1954 afternoon, the prototype for the next century of transports took to the air in Burbank California, carrying with it Lockheed’s extravagant hopes for a production run of as many as one hundred aircraft. […]
The Boeing Airplane Company began 1923 in a race with the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company to design the best pursuit fighter. […]
After the war ended Nov. 11, 1918, the military did not order more aircraft. Civilian biplanes were not selling either. […]
The first B & W, completed in June 1916, was made of wood, linen, and wire. […]
On July 15, 1916, Boeing incorporated his airplane manufacturing business as Pacific Aero Products Company; a year later, he changed the name to the Boeing Airplane Company. […]
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