#earlyaviation

[davidhohnillustration]

Sometimes being a supportive sibling means accompanying your brother in their midnight flying experiments.

#ottolilienthal #supportivesiblings #earlyaviation #childrenillustration #picturebookillustration #kidlitart

[klaus-nether]

Before planes, there were zeppelins

#youtube #aviationhistory #commercialflying #zeppelins #earlyaviation #tinynethertoons #nethertales

[atruebloodwrites]

I absolutely adored Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken when it first came out. When people started reading Nothing But Sky, I heard a lot of comparisons to this beloved movie and it made me smile. The movie definitely does have the same elements as NBS. A determined girl chasing her dreams. A found family who supports her. And a swoony love interest who is willing to do anything to protect her and keep her safe, all while not standing in the way of her goals. Have you watched this movie? If not, I highly recommend you check it out and see how it compares to my debut! . . . . . #nothingbutsky #wildheartscantbebroken #yahistorical #yahistoricalfiction #yareadsofsummer #yabooks #booksbooksbooks #yabookworm #yabookshelf #summerreading #summertbr #historicalbooks #historicalreads #earlyaviation #barnstorming #quickreads #yasummertbr #bookish #booklove #yabookstagram #yabooksofinstagram #yabookhaul https://www.instagram.com/p/CR9UrTJlYH5/?utm_medium=tumblr

#nothingbutsky #wildheartscantbebroken #yahistorical #yahistoricalfiction #yareadsofsummer #yabooks #booksbooksbooks #yabookworm #yabookshelf #summerreading #summertbr #historicalbooks #historicalreads #earlyaviation #barnstorming #quickreads #yasummertbr #bookish #booklove #yabookstagram #yabooksofinstagram #yabookhaul

[penandswordbooks]

Meet the author: The Men Who Gave Us Wings has recently been released in paperback, and here’s author Peter Reese with his copy. This highly readable and highly illustrated account, delves into the fascinating early history of aviation as Reese describes what happened and why. • #MeetTheAuthor #Aviation #AuthorsOfInstagram #NewRelease #BritishHistory #19thCentury #20thCentury #History #Aviators #EarlyAviation #PreWW1 #WrightBrothers #Airmen #SamuelCody #AVRoe #BertramDickson #CharlesRolls #TommySopwith #ArchiveDrawings #BooksToRead #Bookstagram #NewBook #HistoryBooks #PenAndSword #PenAndSwordBooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CDdkOZ7p-tx/?igshid=fe3ab9ycozsv

#meettheauthor #aviation #authorsofinstagram #newrelease #britishhistory #19thcentury #20thcentury #history #aviators #earlyaviation #preww1 #wrightbrothers #airmen #samuelcody #avroe #bertramdickson #charlesrolls #tommysopwith #archivedrawings #bookstoread #bookstagram #newbook #historybooks #penandsword #penandswordbooks

[sagesolar]

AVRO TRIPLANE IV SHUTTLEWORTH COLLECTION by toowoomba surfer https://flic.kr/p/NEEh1x

#Flickr #triplane #aviation #aircraft #aeroplane #museum #airmuseum #aviationmusum #earlyaviation

[missjohoy]

Had the most wonderfully fantastic weekend at @stowaero37. Gorgeous weather for two days, pretty aeroplanes and the best people as company. • • #aviation #avgeek #BE2 #stowmaries #stowmariesaerodrome #flying #ww1 #history #bleriot #earlyaviation #ww1aviation #ww1aht #flying #airshow (at Stow Maries Great War Aerodrome)

#history #bleriot #stowmaries #flying #ww1 #be2 #airshow #avgeek #stowmariesaerodrome #aviation #ww1aviation #ww1aht #earlyaviation

[cmonboard]

“Created to celebrate fifty years of scheduled transpacific air service, this color print of a watercolor painting by Oakland-born Dong Kingman depicts a Pan American China Clipper aircraft flying past the uncompleted Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.Image:  Pan American World Airways print, 1977. Gift of the Pan Am Historical Foundation. 2014.039.075..#dongkingman #panam #chinaclipper #transpacific #earlyaviation watercolor californiastyle CAhistory SFhistory Goldengatebridge sanfrancisco avgeek aviationhistory” ..credit: @sfomuseum.@cmonboardsf compiles the best things happening in San Francisco. Keep an eye on our website for more ....#goldengate #visitcalifornia #baybridge #sanfranciscobay #igerssf #alwayssf #sf_insta #sfguide #mysanfrancisco #bayarea #goldengatebridge #sfbay #bestofbayarea #49ers #sanfrancitizens #citybythebay #oakland #wildbayarea #nowrongwaysf #norcal

#dongkingman #panam #chinaclipper #transpacific #earlyaviation #goldengate #visitcalifornia #baybridge #sanfranciscobay #igerssf #alwayssf #sf_insta #sfguide #mysanfrancisco #bayarea #goldengatebridge #sfbay #bestofbayarea #49ers #sanfrancitizens #citybythebay #oakland #wildbayarea #nowrongwaysf #norcal

[cmonboardsf]

“Created to celebrate fifty years of scheduled transpacific air service, this color print of a watercolor painting by Oakland-born Dong Kingman depicts a Pan American China Clipper aircraft flying past the uncompleted Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.Image:  Pan American World Airways print, 1977. Gift of the Pan Am Historical Foundation. 2014.039.075..#dongkingman #panam #chinaclipper #transpacific #earlyaviation watercolor californiastyle CAhistory SFhistory Goldengatebridge #sanfrancisco avgeek aviationhistory” .

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@cmonboardsf compiles the best things happening in San Francisco. Keep an eye on our website for more .

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#dongkingman #panam #chinaclipper #transpacific #earlyaviation #sanfrancisco

[instapicsil3]

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis with his daughter Suzanne in an airplane in Chicago in an undated photo. Landis was the first Commissioner of Baseball and handled the famous Black Sox scandal in the 1920s. He is credited with cleaning up the game and was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame after his death in 1944. #vintagechicago #judgelandis #baseballcommish #earlyaviation #aviationhistory https://ift.tt/2IYQLeP

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[instapicsil2]

Aerial view of a snowy Municipal Air Field (now known as Chicago Midway International Airport) in 1930. Midway Airport evolved from a small plot of land on the city's southwest side in 1923 with just one runway that served airmail services. The airport was designated the city's official field in 1927 and called Chicago Municipal Airport. Photo by P. K. Burgess. Read more about the early history of Midway Airport: http://trib.in/2B2qB7U #vintagechicago #midwayairport #earlyaviation #earlyflight @flymidway http://ift.tt/2EsbaaR

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[arielsiroalvarez]

Still cleaning up the foreground Se5a.....#ww1 #ww1aviation #se5a #aviationart #dogfight #avgeek #avporn #airbattle #earlyaviation

#earlyaviation #se5a #avgeek #airbattle #dogfight #aviationart #ww1 #avporn #ww1aviation

[penandswordbooks]

#TheAeronauts A fantastic spread in today’s Daily Express on the pioneering early female aviators - written by Sharon Wright, author of the rather wonderful Balloonomania Belles - out now 😍📰💗 • #BalloonomaniaBelles #Aeronauts #Aviation #BalloonTravel #EarlyAviation #AviationPioneers #InThePress #Balloonomania #WomenOfHistory #History #PenAndSword #PenAndSwordBooks #PenAndSwordHistory https://www.instagram.com/p/B4hyhfIgALq/?igshid=1dd10uizivenf

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[martingisborne]

Mlle. Dutrieu

Crossing over between the worlds of cycling and aviation Hélène Dutrieu was born on this day, 136 years ago, in 1877.

Dutrieu was born in the Belgian city of Tournai, not far from the famous cycling city of Roubaix, next to the border with France. Her father was an officer in the Belgian army but, aside from that, we know very little about her early life except for the fact that she left school at 14 to seek work. 

At some point after leaving school she became a rather good cyclist, turning professional with the team La Chaine Simpson (who's famous poster was painted by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec). In 1895 Dutrieu set a world record for women for the one hour duration race and, in 1897 and 1898, winning the world track championship sprint races. She became known as the 'Flèche Humaine' - the Human Arrow. She continued to win races including the Grand Prix of Europe and the 12-day race in London. Her achievements warranted the award of the Cross of St. André by King Leopold II of Belgium. Even with all of her success Dutrieu found it hard to earn enough money from cycling to make a decent living so she started to perform cycling stunts, famously cycling fast enough to perform a vertical loop on a specially made track in Marseille in 1903. Not content with that she started performing stunts on a motorbike, then in a car and eventually going on to race cars for the French team of Clément-Bayard de Levallois from 1904 to 1907.

In 1908 her story takes an interesting twist and launched her into the sky. Clément-Bayard, not content with making cars, decided to make an aeroplane. Designed by famed aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, the aeroplane was called the No 19 Demoiselles ("the Damselfly"). At a time when women were seen as the weaker sex the company thought that having a woman fly the aircraft would show that it was an easy task. Dutrieu and another woman pilot–Mademoiselle Aboukaia–started to learn to fly. It wasn't easy. On her first flight Dutrieu crashed and damaged the airplane. She applied to the Henry Farman Aviation School and learned to fly under Roger Sommer (both of whom were former cyclists). 

In early 1910 she became the first woman to carry a passenger aloft in an airplane when she allowed her mechanic to fly with her. Later that year, on November 25 1910, she became the first Belgian woman to be granted a flying license–Aéro-Club de Belgique License #27. She was the fourth woman to gain a flying license. The Flèche Humaine had become La Femme Épervier (the Lady Hawk).

Let it not be said that Dutrieu was an innocent little flyer though. It was once discovered that she flew without wearing a corset. The revelation was published in the newspapers and the scandal was widespread. 

She went on to set numerous aviation records; she was the first woman pilot to stay airborne for longer than an hour, the first winner of the Coupe Femina. She flew in England and the USA. She beat 14 male pilots, in 1911, to win the Copa del Re in Florence, Italy. In 1913 she became the first woman aviator awarded membership of the French Legion d'Honneur. 

When the First World War broke out Dutrieu became an ambulance driver. She later became the director general of a military hospital in Paris. After the war she became a journalist, married a Frenchman, moved to France and took French nationality. Although her flying exploits stopped after the war she eventually became vice president of the women's section of the Aero Club de France. In 1953 she was awarded the French Medaille de l'Aeronautique and, in 1956, she created the Coupe Hélène Dutrieu-Mortier with a 200,000 franc prize for the Belgian of French woman who flew the furthest non-stop flight each year. 

Dutrieu died, in Paris, in 1961 at the ripe old age of 83.

#aviatrix #aviation #cycling #history #earlyaviation #racing #motorbike #belgium #europe

[instapicsil3]

Aerial view of a snowy Municipal Air Field (now known as Chicago Midway International Airport) in 1930. Midway Airport evolved from a small plot of land on the city's southwest side in 1923 with just one runway that served airmail services. The airport was designated the city's official field in 1927 and called Chicago Municipal Airport. Photo by P. K. Burgess. Read more about the early history of Midway Airport: http://trib.in/2B2qB7U #vintagechicago #midwayairport #earlyaviation #earlyflight @flymidway http://ift.tt/2EsbaaR

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