#Vintage aviation

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A 1917 Bristol Fighter airborne at the 2021 Shuttleworth Flying Festival Airshow

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The German-made zeppelin ZR-3 skims the tops of skyscrapers above foggy Manhattan on its way to Lakehurst, N.J., October 19, 1924. It had just flown across the Atlantic, logging 4,229 nautical miles. The Metropolitan Life Building can be seen below.

The Times reported on the scene in Lakehurst the next day: "So great was the motor traffic that numerous tie-ups developed and thousands of visitors did not reach their homes until well after midnight."

The transatlantic flight was considered an aviation triumph, and its captain and crew were given a parade up Broadway and greeted at the White House. The Atlantic would not be crossed nonstop by air again until Lindbergh's flight in May 1927.

Photo & text: NY Times Photo Archives

[emeraldexplorer2]

1953

[aviatrix-ash]

Currently in love with this completely brand new and modernized 1920s lookin kit plane called the A50 Junior which was recently revealed by Junkers:

I'm a simple aviator, I see a pretty airplane with corrugated aluminum skin and bike wheels and I just feel like I would die if I can't take it up.

They say it's got all modern avionics and a Rotax engine

Tho I personally would much rather have old school style steam gauges in a steam punk lookin airplane, it's still a nice plane. c:

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[yourcoffeeguru]

Vintage The Wonder Book Of Aircraft 1950s Ward Lock Illustrated Collectable // autradingpost

[2flatchat]

Fresh coat for this old war bird hailstorm, mig killer

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[thiswillnotdo]

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Feb 4th 1969 - XB-70A - Edwards Air Force Base

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Viola Gentry poses at Roosevelt Field in Mineola after breaking the first non-refueling endurance record for women, December 20, 1928. Gentry, once a member of the office staff at the Roosevelt Field Flying School, flew for 8 hours, 6 minutes and 37 seconds.

Photo: Associated Press via WHNT

[tentacion3099]

Beginning in 1968 the CIA sought a long-range, nearly silent helicopter for covert infiltration and exfiltration. The result was a heavily modified Hughes 500P (P for Penetrator) known as “The Quiet One”.

By adding one additional main rotor blade and two more tail rotor blades, rotor noise was substantially mitigated. An enormous muffler below the tail and numerous other small internal modifications further reduced the sound generated during flight. A next-generation FLIR camera was installed that was significantly more advanced than anything else available to the US military at the time. When the modified helicopter was demonstrated for CIA director Richard Helms in 1971, he was unable to hear the aircraft as it passed 500 feet overhead, even knowing it was coming.

[aviatrix-ash]

I have a bit of a soft spot for Pietenpols tho :3

These are homebuilts based on a easy to build design from the 1920s that could be built with scrap wood and whatever engine you could get your hands on. People still build em today with the same idea.

[missdc10-avgeek]

Just DC-10 humour!!

[aviationgeek71]

Vought F4U-1A Corsair near Atlantic City, NJ.