Before carrying passengers, America’s most iconic airlines hauled the mail. It was one of the riskiest jobs around. Al Capone's Secret City Learn the history of Al Capone's secret city. 3:38m watch Why the Roa
History of flight - Airmail, Airlines, US: Although the American experience sometimes reflected European trends, it also demonstrated clear differences. Under the auspices of the U.S. Post Office, an airmail operation was launched in 1918 as a wartime ef
American’s long, proud history begins when legendary aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, the chief pilot of Robertson Aircraft Corporation, stowed a bag of mail in his DH-4 biplane and took off from St. Louis to Chicago. Robertson is counted as one of the many airlines that would make up what...
History of Qantas Airways. Find all the details you need to know about the history of Qantas Airways, from inception until today.
Lignes Aériennes Congolaises (LAC) flight map from 1919Allen Airways Flying Museum In the early days of commercial aviation, how did airlines use maps and other literature to entice passengers to travel via air? Roberts: Airlines adopted whatever the graphic design fashion was at the time. For...
As part of a mission aimed at developing space rescue capability, the U.S. spacecraft Apollo 18 and the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 19 rendezvous and dock in space. As the hatch was opened between the two vessels, commanders Thomas P. Stafford and Aleksei Le
The history of the Bozeman Yellowstone Airport dating back to the original start in Belgrade Montana in 1928.
James Banning is known as the first African American Pilot to Fly Across America. In the early 1920s, there was not a flying school in America where a Black person could train as a pilot. Banning found an Army aviator who was willing to teach him in 1926, when he became one of the ...
t count Toyota, a Japanese car giant, among its backers andin December it acquired the flying-car business of Uber, a ride-hailing titan. As it announced its listing via a SPAC inFebruary, Archer unveiled a $1 billion deal to supply United Airlines and a partner airline with 200 five-...
The Magna Carta Willis Carrier’s Rational Psychrometric Formulae brought science to what had been the often hit-or-miss design of air-conditioning systems, and in the process made Carrier an international name. The chart would be updated and reprinted regularly, serving as an essential tool to...