flights

Milestones in the development of flight illustrated from the collection of the National Air and Space Museum. Includes early airplanes, war planes, space travel, international space station and future of flight.

An account of the first flight over the Atlantic Ocean, from Canada to England, made in 1919 by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown.

An account of a pioneer flight made by Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh in 1931, from Washington, D.C., to Japan and China.

The first American woman to have received a pilot's license describes her April 1912 solo flight across the English Channel, the first such flight by any woman.

Text and photographs describe the fliers who conquered the last great barriers to long-distance flight before the second World War. Emphasizes Charles Lindbergh's solo flight in 1927 over the Atlantic.

Discusses Lindbergh's famous flight across the Atlantic and his later life.