Report of airplane crash and Wright Brothers’ intentions for future test flights
Department of Commerce. Weather Bureau. (6/30/1940 - 7/13/1965)View Full Item in National Archives at AtlantaReport describing the airplane crash on May 14th and an insight to the Wright Brothers' intentions to return to Kill Devil Hill in August, 1908 to conduct further test flights.
Photograph of aviator Ruth Bancroft Law on an apparatus near a plane
View Full Item in The University of Texas at DallasPhotograph of Ruth Bancroft Law. She wears a hat, a sweater, pants, and gloves and is sitting on the pilot’s seat of her Curtiss Headless pusher aeroplane which has been modified with Wright type cont…
Women pilots of the first All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race at Parks Airport during a stop-over
Unknown creator, St. Louis UniversityView Full Item in Saint Louis UniversityWomen pilots of the first Women's Transcontinental Air Race gather for photos at Parks Airport while waiting for the fog to lift during a stop-over. Identities are (left to right): #1 Mary Elizabeth v…
Publication about Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 flight from New York to Paris, prepared by the U.S. State Department
United States. Dept. of StateView Full Item in University of CaliforniaOn cover: The flight of Captain Charles A. Lindbergh from New York to Paris. May 20-21, 1927. Presented by the secretary of state, Frank B. Kellogg, June 11, 1927, to Captain Lindbergh in commemoratio…
Charles Lindbergh and plane at Pennco Field, Madison, Wisconsin, 1928
View Full Item in University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsLindbergh standing by his plane at Pennco Field, Madison during his visit to receive an honorary degree.
Amelia Earhart, the second person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, 1928
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryTitle and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Amelia Earhart arrives at East Boston Airport, July 1928
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryTitle and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Cigarette advertisement featuring Amelia Earhart
American Tobacco CoView Full Item in UC San Francisco, Library, Industry Documents LibraryB+W pen and ink framed drawing of Amelia Earhart in aviator hat with signed testimonial on plaque underneath. Cigarette
Lockheed Vega airplane owned by Amelia Earhart, 1930
Karvinen, CliffView Full Item in Saint Louis UniversityLockheed Vega formerly owned by Amelia Earhart. (1931-37) [Photo taken by Cliff Karvinen. compliments of the Fred Roos Aviation Photo Collection.]
Amelia Earhart being interviewed by reporters, July 1932
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryTitle and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation by Amelia Earhart, 1932
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937View Full Item in University of California"Aviation books by women". : [1] p. at end. A first edition copy containing a tiny phonograph record in an envelope mounted on back cover, on which is recorded the speech of Miss Earhart made over a t…
Photograph of pilot Wiley Post (left), the first pilot to fly solo around the world
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967View Full Item in Boston Public LibraryTitle and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Clipping promoting Wiley Post’s 1933 round-the-world flight in a Sperry Automatic Pilot
View Full Item in Garden City Public LibraryImage of Wiley Post and his aircraft, who made the first round-the-world flight using a Sperry Automatic Pilot control
Roscoe Turner standing with his airplane, the Gilmore Lion, circa 1930
Haase, Joseph (Joseph Malta Fredrick), 1893?-1959View Full Item in San Diego History Center (formerly San Diego Historical Society)Studio portrait of Howard Hughes, 1938
Blackington, Alton HView Full Item in Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst LibrariesCopy image: "Profile of the 32 year old aviator who piloted a silvery monoplane around the world in less than 4 days. Picture was made as Hughes was receiving New York's official welcome."
