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Sacramento, California, USA - March 28, 2011: A 1998 USA postage stamp with a portrait of aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) and his plane The Spirit of St Louis. In 1927 Lindbergh made the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic.
New York, USA, 1930s Winter: Side view of an early propeller passenger plane with pilot in cockpit, on a snow-covered runway, engines about to start, capturing the pioneering days of aviation.
The airplane shown is a Stearman PT-17 biplane which was used by the US Army and US Navy to train pilots leading up to, and during, WWII. The airplane was used in basic, or primary, training of new pilots. The photo shows the full airplane from the right front quarter view. One can see the silhouette of the pilot's head in the cockpit. The engine is not running. The markings on the lower wing can be seen and show US Army. The photo is a classic sepia tone and evokes a clear feeling of history and nostalgia.
Vintage Douglas DC-3 propellor airplane ready for take off at the runway of an empty airfield. Image with a retro look.
Miramar, California, USA - September 22, 2023: Vicky Benzing's 1940 Stearman sits in the hangar at America's Airshow 2023.
Commercial passenger airplane in 1951. DC-3. Scanned film with significant grain.
Expedition group loading equipment and horse to cross Buffalo Bay at Lesser Slave Lake in Alberta, Canada. Vintage photograph ca. 1914.
historical aircraft on a runway ready for take off
Irvine, California, USA - August 7, 2024: Afternoon light illuminates a historic Marine Corps Plane and hanger at the Orange County Great Park.
Sunlight streams through windows and reveals the iconic Mk Vc Supermarine Spitfire, seen here sitting in a traditional old aircraft hangar from WWII. Scale model photography.
London, UK – March 22, 2012: showing a portrait of Charles Lindbergh
Lisbon, Portugal - Sep 29, 2023: View of Monument Gago Coutinho e Sacadura Cabral in summer day in the sunshine with tourists, Lisboa, Portugal.
Photo of wingwalker at a barnstorming air show. Photo has some grain due to cropping and 200 speed 35MM print film used.
Douglas AD-5N Skyraider dive bomber with extra fuel tank and torpedo taxiing. Photo taken in 1953.
Berlin (West), Germany, 1959. Presidential elections in Berlin. Arrival of the Federal President of Germany in a US Air Force aircraft at Tempelhof Airport. Also: Berlin police forces and US forces.
Shadow following
historical airplane on an airfield
Looking through an aircraft hangar towards a scale model of the iconic bare-metal DC-3 Dakota in the desert, processed in an old-fashioned style.
Small plane made by scraps of metal and other scrap garbage parts\non wasteland
An old aeroplane/airplane. A biplane’s propeller against the sky. The setting sun is reflected in the aircraft’s golden yellow undercarriage.
Vintage Plane
1946 Luscombe 8A airplane photographed in 1948. Ames, Iowa, USA. Scanned film with significant grain.
Miramar, California, USA - September 21, 2023: A Naval Aircraft Factory N3N training aircraft arrives for America's Airshow 2023.
Details of Vintage Model Biplane
A scale model of the iconic bare-metal DC-3 Dakota in the desert.
historical aircraft on a runway
Views of a small private grass airstrip in Marstons Mills on Cape Cod in MA. Many small planes are on the ground including several DC3s. All runways for this airstrip are grass.
Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA - August 23, 1958: Huber steam traction engine being driven in the Threshermen's Field Days parade. A steam engine like this would have been used to power a threshing machine or other farm machinery. Although steam engines and steam tractors were used in the US until the late 1930s and early 40s, collector goups were already forming by the time this photo was taken in 1958 to preserve steam engines and tractors. Scanned film with significant grain.
Free Images: "bestof:Lindbergh beside Spirit at Curtiss Field, N.Y. May Date: 1927 Ryan Neg .: 93197 Album Name: NYP Spirit Photos - Vol 2 Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum"
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