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The rugged "whale" was perhaps the most internationally popular of the interwar flying boats for transoceanic flights and polar exploration.
In the early 1930s, this type was proposed (unsuccessfully) for the first regular commercial transatlantic service.
The monster Do X was too complex and expensive to operate regular overseas commercial service.
A navigator making sightings from the nose of a U.S. Navy Douglas PD-1.
This aperiodic compass salvaged from Wiley Post's 1935 fatal crash had previously flown in the Winnie Mae.
Harold Gatty instructs an Air Corps officer in the use of the drift indicator he invented.
Advertising poster showcasing the importance of overseas flight.
Aviation in the interwar years tested the limits of human endurance, making complex tasks like navigation highly problematic.
Advertising poster showcasing the importance of overseas flight.
A navigator of Squadron VP-7 demonstrates a Kaster Spherant in the nose of a Douglas PD-1, December 1929.
