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Japan's airline routes were closely tied to military goals, as were the aircraft they selected, such as the H6K, which became a patrol bomber in World War II.
This "one-off" record-setting airliner showcased French engineering expertise on a range of transatlantic flights in the late 1930s.
Lt. Lester Maitland and Lt. Hegenberger with the Fokker C-2 Bird of Paradise.
Amelia Earhart was busy in May 1937 repairing her crash-damaged Lockeed Electra 10E.
Weems had just trained famed British aviator Amy Johnson in celestial navigation.
Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow made a series of transoceanic airline survey flights in this Lockheed Sirius.
The Lindbergh Hour Angle Watch eliminated a simple but troublesome calculation in celestial computations.
Early 1930s military version of the Gatty Drift Indicator.
Used in pioneering trans-Pacific airline service by Pan American Airways.
Cmdr. John Rodgers and his crew spent nine days adrift at sea in this aircraft after failing to rendezvous with a refueling ship.
