Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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Description: | In an obvious publicity stunt, a Northwest Airways pilot delivers the first case of post-Prohibition Atlas Beer to Madison distributor Ira Chambers. The sh... |
Date: | 08 22 1927 |
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Description: | Crowd greeting the "Spirit of St. Louis" when Charles Lindbergh flew to Madison on August 22, 1927. The crowd at Pennco Field (Royal Airport)was so large ... |
Date: | 10 23 1930 |
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Description: | Travelair plane returning to the Madison Airport from a Wisconsin v. Purdue football game. Here photographer Aldro Wasley is handing photographs of the gam... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | The Wright Flyer of Farnum Fish being pushed into position for a demonstration flight at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | The completed Lawson L-4, the second and larger airplane designed and built by Alfred Lawson in Milwaukee in 1920. Not only was Lawson's airliner intended ... |
Date: | 03 17 1931 |
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Description: | A scene at Curtiss-Wright Field in Milwaukee. Pictured are Arthur D. Gaspar, a Waukesha funeral director, and Paul Trier, the pilot of the Curtiss Thrush. ... |
Date: | 05 20 1927 |
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Description: | Charles Lindbergh receiving encouragement from an unidentified spectator as the "Spirit of St. Louis" is prepared for take off. Described by some as a fly... |
Date: | |
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Description: | A tea party on an airplane, a publicity stunt conceived by Harry Bruno to promote his Cleveland-area airline, Aeromarine Airlines. By taking local reporter... |
Date: | 09 25 1912 |
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Description: | Lincoln Beachey, the best known aviator of the exhibition era, performed in Wisconsin with his Curtiss Pusher airplane on numerous occasions. This postcar... |
Date: | 09 1925 |
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Description: | Harry Bruno (second from the left), publicist for airplane builder Anthony Fokker, during the first Ford Air Reliability tour with Paul Smith, Bryce Goldsb... |
Date: | 1932 |
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Description: | Fritz Warden (at the propeller) and Lee Barney, two young members of the Waukesha Flying Club, together with Barney's Aeronica C2 airplane. The Aeronica w... |
Date: | 1951 |
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Description: | Shawano Municipal Airport and airport managers Jack and Dorothy Wussow. In 1954 the Wussows gave up cold weather flying to become managers of an airport i... |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | The ceremony marking the first Wisconsin Central Airlines flight at Madison. Margaret "Mickey" Morey, the wife of Howard Morey, is about to cut the ribbon.... |
Date: | 01 1967 |
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Description: | Greeting astronaut James A. Lovell (4th from the left) and his wife at the airport are Wisconsin Governor Warren P. Knowles (2nd from the left) and Mrs. Do... |
Date: | 08 1912 |
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Description: | The monoplane built by Carl S. Bates, an aeronautical inventor originally from Clear Lake, Iowa. |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | Walter J. Kohler, Sr., (partially hidden, wearing a straw hat and with a flower in his lapel) makes a stop to which he had flown in his airplane, the "Vill... |
Date: | 11 17 1937 |
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Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Legionnaires at the Royal Airport. Also shows two automobiles, an airplane and the Morey Airplane hanger. |
Date: | 11 14 1935 |
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Description: | Six American Legion members with Stinson airplane, annual membership roundup, William B. Cairns Post, No. 57. Left to right: C.Y. Ballem, Ben Bull, Carl Ch... |
Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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Description: | Ira Chambers of the Atlas Distributing Co. is shown receiving the first case of Atlas Beer, of Chicago, Illinois, from the pilot of a Northwest Airlines pl... |
Date: | 12 27 1929 |
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Description: | Four men are standing beside a Curtiss airplane to receive a parcel flown in from the National Theatre Supply Company for the Eastwood Theatre. |
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