[BITList] Really Old Aviation Photos from the USA

[John Feltham]

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Really Old Aviation Photos
Thanks to Hal Austin, we have a group of photographs from the early days.
Here are a few good ol' pictures from yesteryear.. .

Albin K. Longren airplane Photo of Albin K. Longren's first airplane 
Date: 1911


 

1912


 

Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane
Photo of Phillip Billard sitting in Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane
which was built in 1911
Date: Between 1916 and 1920

Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane 
Photo of Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane surrounded by a group of unidentified people 
Date: Between 1911 and 1916

 

Albin Longren's first airplane
View of Albin Longren's first airplane in  Winfield,  Ks . 
Date: November 25, 19 11
Cessna airplane Photo of "Silver Wings," a Cessna monoplane in flight. 
Date: 1911

   Clyde  Cessna
A view of aviation pioneer Clyde Vernon Cessna, 1879-1954, founder of Cessna
Aircraft Company of Wichita , Kansas , and spectators with his aeroplane at Burdett, Kansas . 
Date: 1914
ClydeCessnaClyde Cessna & his 1916 airplane; The first built in  Wichita , KS ; Photo taken at Beaver, 
OK with part of the Beaver Boosters. Date: 1916

   Clyde Cessna Date: Unknown

Flying machine, Goodland , Kansas
This photograph shows the Goodland flying machine, a forerunner of the helicopter, designed and patented by William Purvis and Charles Wilson of  Goodland , Kansas . Purvis and  Wilson built the ship about 1910. The engine was apparently too small and the machine never flew. 
Date: Around 1910

Laird Swallows
A view of four new Laird Swallow airplanes parked in a field at 29th and  Hillside
Streets in  Wichita , Kansas .. Designed by aviation pioneer Emil Matthew "Matty" Laird,
1886-1982, the first Swallow was built for the commercial market in 1920 by Laird
Swallow Manufacturing Company of  Wichita  .
Date: Between 1920 and 1925
 
Longren's airplane company
Albin K. Longren's airplane plant  Topeka , Kansas .
Date: Between 1910 and 1920
Longren's biplane
Albin K. Longren's biplane Date: Between 1910 and 1920

 
Walter Herschel Beech
Walter H. Beech, 1891-1951, (left) pilot and President of Beech Aircraft Corporation,
and Brice H. Goldsborough, of the Pioneer Instrument Corp. and navigator, standing by
a Travel Air built by Beech. They demonstrated the practicability of "blind flight" and
won the 1926 Ford Reliability Tour. Date: 1926

Walter Herschel Beech and Olive Ann Beech
Walter Herschel Beech, 1891-1951, and Olive Ann Beech, 1903-1993, viewing
World War II aircraft production lines at the Beechcraft Plant I in  Wichita , Kansas .
 Date: Between 1940 and 1945



 
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ooroo

Bad typists of the word, untie.




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