[WWI] Fw: Fwd: [ScannedSeries] Really Old Aviation Photos

Mon Nov 9 04:11:50 EST 2009

This was sent to another group and I thought I would share it with this group

Really Old Aviation Photos

 IT IS MIND BOGGLING TO IMAGINE ALL THE CHANGES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN AVIATION.
Really Old Aviation Photos
Thanks to Hal Austin, we have a group of photographs from the early days.
Here are a few good ol' pictures from yesteryear.. .
Albin K. Longren airplane Photo of Albin K. Longren's first airplane
Date: 1911

1912

Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane
Photo of Phillip Billard sitting in Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane
which was built in 1911
Date: Between 1916 and 1920
Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane 
Photo of Albin K. Longren's No. 6, Model G airplane surrounded by a group ofunidentified people
Date: Between 1911 and 1916

Albin Longren's first airplane
View of Albin Longren's first airplane in  Winfield, Ks.
Date: November 25, 19 11
Cessna airplane
Photo of "Silver Wings," a Cessna monoplane in flight.
Date: 1911
   Clyde  Cessna
A view of aviation pioneer Clyde Vernon Cessna, 1879-1954, founder of Cessna
Aircraft Company of Wichita , Kansas , and spectators with his aeroplane at Burdett, Kansas .
Date: 1914

ClydeCessna
Clyde Cessna & his 1916 airplane; The first built in  Wichita , KS ; Photo taken at Beaver,
OK with part of the Beaver Boosters. Date: 1916
   Clyde Cessna Date: Unknown
Flying machine, Goodland , Kansas
This photograph shows the Goodland flying machine, a forerunner of the helicopter,designed and patented by William Purvis 
and Charles Wilson of  Goodland , Kansas . Purvis and  Wilson built the ship about 1910. The engine was apparently too small 
and the machine never flew.
Date: Around 1910
Laird Swallows
A view of four new Laird Swallow airplanes parked in a field at 29th and  Hillside
Streets in  Wichita , Kansas .. Designed by aviation pioneer Emil Matthew "Matty" Laird,
1886-1982, the first Swallow was built for the commercial market in 1920 by Laird
Swallow Manufacturing Company of  Wichita  .
Date: Between 1920 and 1925

Longren's airplane company
Albin K. Longren's airplane plant  Topeka , Kansas .
Date: Between 1910 and 1920

Longren's biplane
Albin K. Longren's biplane Date: Between 1910 and 1920

Walter Herschel Beech
Walter H. Beech, 1891-1951, (left) pilot and President of Beech Aircraft Corporation,
and Brice H. Goldsborough, of the Pioneer Instrument Corp. and navigator, standing by
a Travel Air built by Beech. They demonstrated the practicability of "blind flight" and
won the 1926 Ford Reliability Tour.Date: 1926
Walter Herschel Beech and Olive Ann Beech
Walter Herschel Beech, 1891-1951, and Olive Ann Beech, 1903-1993, viewing
World War II aircraft production lines at the Beechcraft Plant I in  Wichita , Kansas .
 Date: Between 1940 and 1945       

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