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(via 24th April 2024 - all things amazing —)

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Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird (1985)

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Grumman F3F

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1938 Grumman F3F-2 "Flying Barrel" Biplane Fighter in period appropriate US Navy colors at the Planes of Fame Airshow, Chino, California

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requested by anon

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James McCudden WW1 British Flying Ace VC. The girl on the motorbike with him is his sister. He died in Auxi-le-Château, France, 1918 aged 23.

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The Hawker P.V.3 was a proposed replacement for the Hawker Fury using the Rolls-Royce Goshawk engine. The Goshawk was a failure and thus so were all the aircraft based around it, but just as Supermarine's effort with the Goshawk would lead to the Spitfire, so too would the P.V.3 teach Hawker lessons incorporated in the Hurricane.

These photos were taken sometime between 1933 and 1935, most likely at Brooklands.

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Blackburn Baffin

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Bristol F.2B

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Hendon Airport, London, 1912. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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Milestone Monday

On this day, October 23, 1906, aeronaut Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) flew his biplane 14-bis for 50 meters at an altitude of about four meters. 14-bis, also known as Oiseau du Proie or “Bird of Prey,” was a powered heavier-than-air machine that took off unassisted by an external launch system at the Bagatelle Gamefield in Paris. This was one of the first heavier-than-air flights certified by the Aeroclub of France and recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.  

In celebration of this momentous shift within aerodynamics, we are exploring Santos-Dumont's earlier flights through his autobiography My Air-Ships published in New York in 1904 by The Century Company. Santos-Dumont's first experiments with flight were conducted in lighter-than-air balloons, oblong shaped and filled with buoyant gas. He conveniently named them numerically No. 1- No. 10 and kept detailed records of the successes and failures of each balloon.  

Most notably was Santos-Dumont's flight No. 6 in 1901 when he flew around the Eiffel Tower. The flight took 29 minutes and 30 seconds and awarded him the Deutsch Prize. The flight is heavily documented in his autobiography along with all of Santos-Dumont's lighter-than-air designs and airships.  

My Air-Ships features a lovely publisher's binding, is a gift of George Hardie, and is part of the George Hardie Aerospace Collection at UW-Milwaukee.

View other Milestone Monday posts.

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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Oshkosh 2023

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Seagull SOC-3A from VS-201 onboard the carrier USS Long Island photographed on 16 Dec. 1941

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de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide 'Memma'. ca1935. Royal Mail carrier

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Imperial Airways in Africa

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the culturally appropriated but warm hat 2024 acrylic on canvas 34x34cm michael pontieri