Sonoma County made aviation history 114 years ago when local pilot Fred J. Wiseman glided his biplane from Petaluma to Santa Rosa to deliver mail and newspapers — marking the first airmail flight in ...

In 1912 the idea of flight was still new to most people, including those who lived in Marietta. The idea that man could overcome gravity and fly through the sky was something that most had to see to ...

Click to open image viewer. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Benjamin ...

A series where we take a #lookback at the stories and history of our community, brought to you by Mick Pryor, Financial ...

On this day in aviation history, 84 years ago (November 30, 1941), airmail was flown via jet aircraft for the first time. The Caproni Campini N.1, an Italian experimental jet aircraft which first flew ...

A Swallow biplane left Pasco on April 6, 1926, making the history books as the first commercial U.S. Air Mail flight. City of Pasco Pasco, WA When a biplane took off from an airfield in Southeast ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. When airmail pilot Eddie Gardner wasn ...

Chennai: Exactly 115 years ago, on a crisp February morning, 23-year-old Frenchman Henri Pequet climbed into the open cockpit of a fragile Humber biplane. As he cleared the banks of the Yamuna River, ...