The Lockheed Model 10 Electra was one of the most advanced airliners of the 1930s, helping usher in a new era of fast, all-metal commercial aviation. Designed to compete with aircraft such as the ...

The age of piston-engine air travel still exists today, but its golden era was the 1920s to 1950s. A vast, exciting world opened to air tourists in this stylish, dashing age of glamour and more than a ...

NASMAIN copy 39088019708247 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "The first efforts of man to fly were limited by his ability to generate sufficient power to lift a ...