First flight photo of the Douglas Skyrocket using its rocket motor. Two models of the transonic research plane have been turned over to National Advisory Com…

Airline dispatchers at Seattle-Tacoma Airport use a newly developed push-button public address system for announcing incoming and outgoing flights. Each flig…

Republic Aviation Corp.'s XF-91 jet and rocket-powered fighter is shown on its first flight at Muroc Air Force Base, Calif. With rocket units not yet ins…

Main ticket office for Pan American Airway's Puerto Rico flights is this ticket office, located in the heart of New York's Puerto Rican district, in …

First flight photo of the Douglas Skyrocket using its rocket motor. Two models of the transonic research plane have been turned over to National Advisory Com…

Recent flight photo of the McDonnell Voodoo (XF-88) twin jet penetration fighter shows test pilot Bob Edholm putting the speedster through its paces over Mur…

First flight photos of Convair's Delta-Wing Model 7002 research plane taken at Muroc AFB. These photos, blown up from 16mm movie film, show the extremely…

LOS ANGELES - Oil flames from 392 triple burners encircled a runway and approach zone at Los Angeles Municipal Airport, as the first public demonstration of …

First flight of the prototype Convair B-36D is shown here on takeoff at Fort Worth using a total of 40.000 hp. developed from six Pratt & Whitney Wasp Ma…

Getting full measure of publicity from its position at the head of the Stratocruiser delivery list, Pan American Airways is showing its big new planes at key…

Grumman was forced to abandon its tricky wing-folding system (used on wartime F6F Hellcats and TBF Avengers) on its new F9F jet fighter due to low ground cle…

Perhaps not a record shipment, but large enough to call into use a full-sized overhead crane was this 10,000-lb. ship rudderstock recently loaded aboard a Se…

This vertical view of the Convair Deltawing Model 7002 dramatizes its unique configuration. Sweepback of the wing's leading edge to 60 deg. is calculated…

Aerojet Engineering Corp. liquid JATO units give 8000 lb. of rocket thrust to this North American B-45's 20,000 lb. of take- off thrust provided by four …

This quick stop method of the Boeing XF-47, through use of a 30-ft. diameter ribbon parachute, was demonstrated at Andrews Field last week at the end of the r…

With the delivery of the first of a fleet of 20 Boeing Stratocruisers to Pan American World Airways, the history of commercial aviation will open a fresh cha…

Douglas' Skyrocket (D-558-II) gets a takeoff boost from two Aerojet JATO bottles during flight tests at Muroc Base, Cailfornia. The JATO bottles are inst…

All American Airways' specially-modified DC-3s are well-suited to the short-hop, short-stop pattern of feederline operations which AAA plans to inaugurat…

With a 15-ft. gash in the top right side of the fuselage, a Pan American Constellation last week was landed safely at Mitchel Air Force Base, N. Y., after a …

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - Navy unveiled its fastest jet fighter here last week-the Chance Vought Cutlass (XF7U-1). The twin jet, tailless, sweptwing Cutlass is …