Aerial circus star Clyde Pangborn and playboy Hugh Herndon, Jr., strutted onto aviation’s world stage in 1931 when they took off from New York with high hopes of beating the around-the-world speed record set by one-eyed Wiley Post.
Search results
The Space Shuttle
Shuttles are the highest, fastest airplanes, but they can’t break the image barrier back on the ground.
Operation Vittles: The Allied Airlift that Saved Berlin
A massive airlift into a beleaguered Berlin showed the Soviets that a post-WWII blockade would not work.
Bill Lancaster: Lost in the Sahara After Attempting to Break the England-Cape Town Flight Speed Record
Help came 29 years too late for Captain Bill Lancaster, missing on a record-chasing flight from England to South Africa.
DC-3 Airliner
The Douglas Aircraft Company’s Grand Old Lady of the Skies — the DC-3 — still plies the airways it pioneered as the first practical airliner.
Lores Bonney: Australian Female Pilot
Whether circumnavigating Australia, flying from Brisbane to London, or from Brisbane to Cape Town, Lores Bonney heard variations on the same theme: ‘This is no place for a woman.’ By 1937, she had proved all the naysayers wrong.
Old Glory’s Final Ill-fated Flight: New York to Rome in 1927
On the heels of Charles Lindbergh’s famous flight, veteran airmail pilots J.D. Hill and Lloyd Bertaud were determined to set out for Rome in a Fokker monoplane dubbed Old Glory.
Harold Gatty: Aerial Navigation Expert
A groundbreaker in aerial navigation, Australian Harold Gatty flew with and worked for many of the great names of aviation’s golden age.
Memphis Belle: 25 Trips to Hell and Back
America’s most famous Flying Fortress found a permanent place in the hearts of Americans after her hazardous career in the European theater.
Nancy Harkness Love: Female Pilot and First to Fly for the U.S. Military
Nancy Harkness Love proved her mettle in the air and gained recognition for women pilots in a man’s world.