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A short notice reporting on the 1917 death of Count Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Von Zeppelin (b. 1838). The count is reported to have died a sad and broken man over the failure of his airships to hasten a decisive ending to the First World War and remorseful that his name would forever be associated with the first air raids on civilian targets.
An article about Roland Rohlfs (1892 – 1974), chief test pilot of the Curtiss Engineering Corporation and his Curtiss Wasp triplane, the aircraft he flew at an altitude of 30,000 feet when he set a new speed record (163.1 mph) in 1919.
A short notice reporting on the one pride and joy of the U.S. Army Air Service, the Verville Packard, and how this one aircraft performed at the Pulitzer Trophy Airplane Race of 1920. The article is illustrated with a photo of the plane and the aviator, Lt. C.C. Mosley, who piloted the craft at the impressive speed of 156.5 mph.
Here is an explanation from the official newspaper of the A.E.F. as to how World War I American fighter pilots were credited for their victories in the war against Germany.
Click here to read an article about the development of aerial reconnaissance during W.W. I.
Photographs of one of the first attempts at night flying with wing-mounted electric lights.
Here is a short article with photographs depicting two unnamed British fighter- planes: one is described as double-decker, with the pilot riding directly over the gunner and the second boasts of a steel fuselage construction.
A 1913 article that examined the nascent world of hydroplanes.
At 11:01 a.m., (January 18, 1911) Eugene Ely (1886 – 1911), flying a Curtiss Pusher, landed on a specially built platform aboard the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania at anchor in San Francisco Bay.
A black and white photograph of the event is provided.
A schematic plan of a German World War One Zeppelin that illustrates the airship’s bombay, crew quarters and gondola.
