Photos
These images depict some of the historical figures and achievements in aviation history made long distance air travel possible.
Images may be subject to copyright.

Pan Am S-42B at Alameda, 1937 © CC

Pan Am Wake Island hotel © PAHF

S-42 at Diamond Head Apr.1935 © PAHF

S-42 take-off run © Sikorsky

Sikorsky S-40 cutaway © Sikorsky

Wilbur Wright, France, 1908 © Getty

China Clipper, Manila, 1935 © PAHF

Pan Am Clipper survey flight © PAHF

Lindbergh in his plane, 1927 © Getty

Lindbergh, Spirit St. Louis © Alamy

Juan Trippe portrait 1938 © PAHF

Igor Sikorsky w S-29A © Sikorsky

Charles Lindbergh w/helmet © HNE

Juan Trippe, C. Lindbergh © PAHF

Hugo Leuteritz in NJ © Leuteritz

Hugo Leuteritz testing © Leuteritz

China Clipper, Nov 23 1935 © PAHF

Charles Lindbergh © STMedia

Boeing 314 1st flight 1938 © Boeing

Boeing 314 Clipper, 1938 © Boeing

Charles Lindbergh, 1927

148th American Aero Squadron

Apollo 7 liftoff, Oct 11 1968

Charles Lindbergh w airmail

Charles Lindbergh, Canal Zone

China Clipper, San Francisco

Charles Lindbergh, Miami, 1929

Ford Lincoln, Washington DC

Igor Sikorsky w Ed Musick, 1934

Hawaii by flying clipper, 1939

Employment Service, Tulelake

Luft Hansa Albatros L 73b

Imperial Airways HP 42,1931

General Billy Mitchell, 1919

Map, Straits of Florida 1900

Martin MB-1 bomber, 1918

Pan Am Caribbean Clipper, Miami

Pan Am S-40, Miami, ca 1930s

Pan Am Southern Clipper, 1931

Pan Am Southern Clipper, Miami

Wilbur Wright in New York, 1909

Passengers board S-40, Miami

Trippe, Priester & Eaton, 1928

Pan Am Clipper survey flight © PAHF