Aviation
The Pacific Coast Number, September 1st, 1928 — a Western Air Express Fokker over the San Bernardino mountains, on the front of the weekly trade paper of an industry still inventing itself.
⬇ FREE PDF · 55.2 MB — at archive.org ↗Aviation
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Aviation
November 3rd, 1928: a Whirlwind-powered Waco going into a climbing turn on the cover, and inside, a public appeal for a better formula for next year’s air tour.
⬇ FREE PDF · 34.7 MB — at archive.org ↗Aviation
June 15th, 1929, thirty cents — air transport progress in the United States, and the entirely serious question of how you light an emergency landing field so a pilot can find it at night.
⬇ FREE PDF · 43.3 MB — at archive.org ↗Aviation
“Story of the Week at Cleveland”, September 7th, 1929 — the National Air Races, written up by the trade weekly, with a chequerboard pylon on the cover to prove it was there.
⬇ FREE PDF · 45.8 MB — at archive.org ↗Aviation
“The Oldest American Aeronautical Magazine”, 28 September 1929: prospects of the Ford Tour, air-racing lessons from Cleveland, and the Bellanca “Tandem” drawn flying straight at you off the cover.
⬇ FREE PDF · 40.1 MB📭 Nothing off this shelf yet — Aviation is still in the crate. Come back in a day or two, or have a look at the rest of the rack. ☕
turning the page…
reading on OSSmile · scan courtesy of the Internet Archive
