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A Consolidated Commodore flying boat of the New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line cruising over the Rio de Janeiro harbor.

Ha Long Horizon: Vintage Skies and Bohemian Ties

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On May 21, 1929 a crowd gathered at Grand Central Station to see the Bremen, the first plane to make a westward flight across the Atlantic.

Photo: Reuters via Der Spiegel

“If you have flown, perhaps you can understand the love a pilot develops for flight. It is much the same emotion a man feels for a woman, or a wife for her husband.”

— Louise Thaden, first woman to win the Bendix trophy. Preface to High, Wide, and Frightened, 1938.

Another shot of the 1941 Waco UPF-7 I recently shared.

The Clouds Await (1946 DC3 “Kippie Lee")

Prince Albert, as he was known at the time, and his friend Major Louis Greig getting prepared to fly to France. These photographs were taken in 1918 at Hendon (formerly a civilian flying school, which was commandeered by the War Office in 1916). Bertie gained his RAF pilot wings on July 31st 1919, becoming the first member of the British Royal Family to qualify - and to achieve this despite actually having a phobia of flying & heights was in itself rather courageous! I do also think he looks somewhat anxious, all cocooned in that big padded coat, gauntlets and helmet. Still adorable, though :)

Fourth photo: they’re just about visible in the cockpit, but the aircraft nerd in me mostly wanted to show off that biplane bomber, a Handley Page O/400, oh my!

“ La Grise “ // Salon-de-Provence // 2022

My dad's Super Luscombe. Freshly washed, polished and waxed

Been having some engine issues on my plane, finally got it traced to a stuck valve in the number 4 cylinder, so having that shipped out for repair.

"OSHKOSH Texan"

Passengers boarding a Pan American Airways’ Sikorsky S-40 circa 1932.

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