Pan American Airlines promotional poster for Bermuda, 1949
Tag: Airplanes
Wings, Sept, 1934
Descending Doom!
Poster promoting Descending Doom!, Chapter 10 of the Jungle Jim serial from 1937
Airboy, Sept, 1947
The Tuskegee Airmen, 1941-1946
The Tuskegee program officially formed June 1941 with the 99th Pursuit Squadron at Tuskegee University. A group of Black-American and Caribbean-born pilots were formed into the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces. They 332nd Fighter Group received the nickname of Red Tails after the pilots painted the tails of their P-47s red.
Shirley Slade
Happy Veterans Day to the women who fought for the USA as well!
Shirley Slade, was one of the 1,100 female pilots of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) she flew both B-26 and B-39s
Tense?
Tense? Airplane going down in flames? Then you need a cup of coffee!!!
Coffee promotional ad from the Pan American Coffee Bureau, 1939
Arial Battle
Promotional shot of Arial Battle Scene in the 1930 film Hell’s Angels.
With Byrd at the South Pole
Real-life docudrama about Admiral Byrd’s 1928 expedition to the south pole.
Fly British Around the World
1938 Qantas Empire Airways advertising poster