#air travel history

[flyingprivate]

"Le Jaune" Airship

The airship, Le Jaune, built by France’s Lebaudy brothers, glided past the Eiffel Tower in Paris at 11:15 a.m. on November 20, 1903.

The name Le Jaune (“The Yellow”) came from a coat of yellow lead chromate that was used to seal the airship envelope.

They constructed an airship hangar at Moisson, near the River Seine downstream from Paris and were instrumental in the development of airships, and a series of semi-rigid airships in the early years of the twentieth century.

[ashotasfireandasdeepastheocean1]

Concorde ♡

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[menandwomanofhistory]

Amelia Earhart

[scotianostra]

On August 9th 1935 Prestwick Airport in Ayrshire opened after David McIntyre set up Scottish Aviation Ltd.

.After the outbreak of war in 1939, Prestwick Aerodrome was designated RAF Prestwick with David McIntyre as Station Commander. Prestwick Airport Passenger Terminal became a haven for transatlantic crews during the war. By 1945 it had become arguably the best equipped and most active airport terminal in Europe.

On March 3rd 1960 a United States army transport plane returning to the USA from Germany, stopped to refuel at Prestwick, one of the passengers was sergeant Elvis Aaron Presley, the only time he set foot on the British Isles.

The pictures show the old control tower at the Airport, originally known as Monkton House, it was built by a Samuel Neilson, a mason for a Hugh Baillie around 1740, who, due to financial problems rapidly sold it to a James Macrae of Blackheath he renamed the house Orangfield after William of Orange and carried out alterations in the late 18th century. The flanking wings and entrance steps were added in 1906 and in 1933 the house was converted to an hotel following the building of Prestwick Airport. Used by the RAF and USAAF during World War II, a control tower was built through the roof in 1943. The building was demolished in February 1966 when Prestwick Airport was expanded.

Among the pics are The Tartan Army heading for Mexoco in 1986, Trigger, Elvis and Concorde at Prestwick through the years. The construction pic is from 1992 when the train station was built, Prestwick was and still is the only Scottish airport directly connected to the railway.

[rabbitcruiser]

Apollo program: Apollo 11’s crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon (July 21 UTC) on July 20, 1969.

[doedipus]

a large amount of time I've been spending on -untitled undefined scope original fiction project- since the last time I posted about it has been trying to develop the protagonist concept I came up with last summer or whatever into like, a character that would feel real and era appropriate.

it's fun research to do. naturally a lot of the details I assigned to her are things that I already think are cool, so it's been a lot of fun trying to trace her traits back through the relatively recent past, getting reminded of how much things have changed, or where the gaps in my intuition are, and then doing a flurry of reading to get a sense for exactly how someone like her and the people around her could have happened and what her life was probably like leading up to her present day. hopefully this results in some good good verisimilitude.

[deadpresidents]

i know obama used it to some extent, but do you know if trump or biden used ground force one at all during their presidencies?

For those who might not know what they are referring to, "Ground Force One" is the nickname for the badass armored bus that's been used for Presidential travel:

Off the top of my head, I can't recall President Trump or President Biden using the bus.

Really, the only time it makes sense for using it is for a very specific type of trip, like a campaign bus tour, or if there's some sort of weather-related reason that grounds the Marine One helicopters during a relatively short journey. Otherwise, I imagine it's pretty expensive to maintain the buses (and actually transport the buses themselves to various locations!) and I wouldn't think it's ideal for the Secret Service. Although the bus is armored and, like "The Beast", almost certainly has all sorts of crazy security features, it is still a big, slow target. I think the Presidential protective detail would much rather just use the faster, far more maneuverable limo than the bus.

It's pretty cool, though. It looks like it should be part of the Knight Rider crew:

[exploring-the-past]

Tissandier, Gaston. 1887. Histoire des ballons et des aeronautes celebres ... t.1, Paris : H. Launette & cie.

Original Caption: Ascension éxecutée par Charles dans La Prairie de Nesles, le 1 Decémbre 1783.

[realityarchitect]

Flying over Pyramide Del Sol en Teotihuacan, Mexico in a hot air balloon!

CAUTION: TURN VOLUME DOWN, FLAME IS LOUD! 🔉

[theknitpotato]

One fun fact about Grand Teton National Park is that it's home to some of the youngest mountains in North America, with the Teton Range being only around 9 million years old, which is relatively young in geological terms!

[bulgara]

Old Nesseabr // Bulgaria // Black Sea Coast

[randadrives]

Switching it up today. Just a traveling adventure dog.

In case you did not know, the PIMA Air and Space Museum in Tucson, AZ is a dog friendly museum!

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1817 – William Sadler makes the first balloon crossing of the Irish Sea, from Dublin to Anglesey.

The race to be the first to cross the Irish Sea by hot air balloon would turn out to be a family affair. After James Sadler’s high-profile attempt failed in October 1812, the baton was taken up by his 20-year-old aeronaut son, Windham Sadler, in 1817. Like his father, Sadler published an account of his groundbreaking flight. From the beginning, his narrative frames the attempt as a generational…

[rabbitcruiser]

NHL’s Toronto St Patricks became Maple Leafs on September 24, 1927.

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View-Master photo of the short-lived helicopter shuttle service to / from the Pan-Am Building in New York City to / from JFK or Teterboro airports, 1965-1968.

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the new house owner