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 trade press of flight, written while the industry was inventing itself.
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
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
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 ↗Aerial Age Weekly
April 1919. The war is over, the aeroplanes are still here, and the whole industry is meeting in Atlantic City to work out what on earth to do with them next. (Answer, it turns out: everything.)
⬇ FREE PDF · 185.5 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 MBAerial Age Weekly
A whole weekly magazine about flying, seventeen years after Kitty Hawk. The cover is a “Review of Aviation in 1920” — because in 1920 a single year of aviation was already too much news to fit anywhere else.
⬇ FREE PDF · 91.0 MB — at archive.org ↗📭 Nothing on this shelf yet — Aviation is a space we have swept and labelled and not filled. Something will lean up against it soon; in the meantime there are 6 other categories on the 🔧 Useful shelf. ☕
turning the page…
reading on OSSmile · scan courtesy of the Internet Archive
