Inside Hollywood's deep, complicated, mutually beneficial (and occasionally tragic) relationship with aviation.

Sleek, fast, and beautifully engineered, the Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior was a masterpiece of 1930s aviation design. Though it never achieved the fame of the larger Electra, it played a vital ...

The journey from the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk to the exploration of the cosmos is a fascinating tale of human ingenuity. It all began with the Wright brothers’ groundbreaking flight, which ...

Maybe this was a pressure-creating-diamonds situation. Somehow in the 1930s, amid the immense stresses of economic collapse, natural disaster, Olympic anxiety and the looming shadow of World War II, ...

The Boeing YB-9 was a revolutionary leap forward in 1930s aviation – the company’s first all-metal monoplane bomber. At a time when most of the U.S. Army Air Corps still relied on slow, lumbering ...

For many people who lived through the era, the decade of the 1930s was a period they’d rather forget. This tumultuous decade started with an economic depression, ended with the outbreak of a global ...

Among other big air transport operators the name of smart Errett Lobban Cord has been anything but hallowed. He established Century and Century Pacific Lines parallel to “pioneer” services. Equipping ...

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