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Title: 100 Years of Aviation
Description: Entire issue of Gateway Heritage devoted to flight. Includes primary sources such as letters by the Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh. Chapters are: How We Made The First Flight; To Octave Chanute, Esq.; Lighter Than Air; Nerve and Cold Courage; Well Known in Aviation Circles; The Tuskegee Experiment; Mr. Mac: Sanford N. McDonnell; A Pilot's Story; The Eagle Flies (Irv Burrows recounts his role as the test pilot of the F-15 Eagle). Heavy emphasis on aviation in St. Louis.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Aerial View of Plane and Pilot
Description: Aerial view of an airplane pilot standing in cockpit, possibly performing an stunt, flying above an industrial area and river.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Airline Service Here to a New Peak
Description: This 1937 article gives schedules and airplane descriptions for Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. (TWA), Hanford Airlines, Braniff Airways, and United. It gives a schedule for the new Sky Hawk that had its inaugural run on May 1, 1937, a description of the "new 25-passenger Sleeper Skyliners, berths comparable to those offered on railroad Pullmans," and has a picture of the Skysleeper.
Date: 1937-05-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Airplane
Description: View of an early airplane or biplane on the ground.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane
Description: Side view of U.S. Mail Express, Number 17.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane
Description: Picture of plane which says "Josephine Ford Byrd Arctic Expedition" on the side.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane
Description: View of an early airplane or biplane in flight over fields.
Date: 1925
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane Aloft
Description: View of two men surrounded by cars with NAT U.S. mail airplane overhead.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane and Aviators
Description: Two couples, identified as Mr. and Mrs. Russel Dick and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Gregory, posed in front of airplane.
Date: 1926
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane and Pilot Ben Gregory
Description: Pilot identified as Ben Gregory in cockpit of plane that says "Passenger Service, Gregory Front D[rive] Motor Cars & Tr[ucks]."
Date: 1923
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane In Flight
Description: Distant view of an airplane flying in Overland Park, Kansas. Handwriting on the back of the photo describes it as Military Tractor.
Date: 1915-08-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane In Flight
Description: Distant view of an airplane flying in Overland Park, Kansas. Two men on ground watch it. The handwriting on the back of the photo describes it as, "Military Tractor."
Date: 1915-08-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane in Flight
Description: Early aircraft in flight at unidentified location.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane in Hangar
Description: Early plane in hangar, nearby sign reads "Western Air Express".
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane On Ground
Description: Airplane on the ground in Overland Park, Kansas. Handwriting on the back of the photo describes it as Military Tractor.
Date: 1915-08-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane On Ground
Description: Close view of an airplane on the ground in Overland Park, Kansas. Unidentified men sit underneath it. The handwriting on the back of the photo describes it as a, "Military Tractor."
Date: 1915-08-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane Propeller
Description: Partial frontal view of early plane.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane Surrounded by People
Description: Distant view of Fokker plane and nearby crowd at unidentified location.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplane Taking Flight
Description: Airplane taking flight at airshow in Overland Park, Kansas. Line of cars and people watching in background. Handwriting on the back of the photo describes it as Military Tractor.
Date: 1915-08-15
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Airplanes
Description: Two photographs of planes over Kansas City Municipal Airport. One is a Braniff airliner, the other TWA.
Object Type: Photograph

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