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Category Archives: 1920s

Fokker Trimotor

A long distance aircraft of the 1920s All-metal, high-wing monoplane The freezing Arctic wind penetrated the unheated, corrugated metal craft taking off from Spitsbergen, Norway. Navigator Richard Byrd, an ambitious U.S. Navy Commander, and pilot Floyd Bennett struggled to keep warm in their furs. They made a long flight north that day, and on their [...]

Posted 16 April 2008 § American § Passenger Airliners ‡ Comments (0)

Breguet 19

Most widely produced military aircraft of the interwar period The “Question Mark” made the Paris – New York flight in 1930 an aircraft featured on the Hall of Fame of the Air Captain Dieudonne Costes and navigator Maurice Bellonte flew this specially modified red Breguet 19, “Point d’Interrogation,” or “Question Mark” on the first non-stop, [...]

Posted 14 April 2008 § Bombers § French ‡ Comments (0)

Latecoere 26

A postwar French multi-purpose military aircraft. Designed in the 1920s as a mail carrier the Latécoère 26 first flew in 1926, based on the earlier Latécoère 25 with a longer fuselage. It had a parasol wing with a fixed tailskid landing gear Col. Charles Kerwood, an American who served with the French and Greek armies, [...]

Posted 10 April 2008 § Bombers § French ‡ Comments (0)

Curtiss O-1 Falcon

click to enlarge. Curtiss O-1 Falcon (1920′s) East Boston Airport 1936 click to enlarge Curtiss Falcon (1930′s) East Boston Airport 1936

Posted 10 April 2008 § American § Fighters ‡ Comments (0)