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