Technically this was the second in-flight movie, the first was a film called Howdy Chicago which was shown to its passengers as they flew around Chicago.
Tag: Airplanes
Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant
Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant was a German military transport aircraft of World War II. It was a powered variant of the Me 321 military glider and was the largest land-based transport aircraft of the war. (Wikipedia)
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Carole Lombard, 1935
Carole Lombard straddling the landing gear of a Waco CJC Airplane.
First US Airmail Route, 1916
Here’s Uncle Sam’s Map of First Aero Mail Route In The United States
It’s submitted to bidders for the service over the proposed route from New Bedford, Mass., to Nantucket, via Woods Hale and Oak Bluffs.
(The Day Book (Chicago, IL), February 15, 1916)
A Plane Full of Christmas Cheer
Airmail routes indicating times from Chicago, The Midland Journal, Rising Sun, MD, December 09, 1932
The Last Gunpowder War? 1914
“Airships will carry vast lenses that will concentrate the rays of the sun, withering and destroying everything beneath them.”
America’s WWII Shopping List, 1963
Before the letters to the editors started being published, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby included some historical information towards the back of the Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos comic. Issue #3 was a shopping list for WW2
Underground Nests, 1936
Underground Nests for War Airplanes
THE next war, all agree, will be a war in the air; and the advantage will be with the force striking the first blow. Obviously, the attack will be made on the fixed air bases of the other army, since that will inflict most damage from a military point of view. An airplane on the ground is quite helpless; and its hangars and shops are vulnerable. During the late war, battleships were kept at their bases to protect them while not engaged in battle with similar foes; but the ship always floats, while the airplane must spend most of its time grounded. (Science and Mechanics, Feb, 1936)
British Flyers, 1922
Route of the British Around-the-world Flyers
The course that the three aviators are expected to follow on their projected tour of the world in ninety days is indicated by the line of arrows on the map, starting and ending in London.
The photographs shown, left, Major W.T. Blake, leader of the expedition, and right Captain Norman MacMillian, one of his companions.
from New-York Tribune, May 28, 1922
Punctuality (33), 1937
A “Hope of a Nation” poster series educational poster from the 1930s, distributed by C.R. Jackson Co of Kansas City, MO. The were used weekly in classrooms. They were probably forerunners to the more modern “Motivation” posters