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1. 100 Years of Aviation 100 Years of Aviation Summer 2003 Entire issue of Gateway Heritage devoted to flight. Includes primary sources such as letters by the Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh. Chapters are: How We Made The First Flight; To Octave Chanute,...
2. Air Age Here: Kansas City to Be One of World's Leading Aviation Centers Air Age Here: Kansas City to Be One of World's Leading Aviation Centers June/25/1929 Photo and article about the transcontinental passenger service here.
3. Airline Service Here to a New Peak Airline Service Here to a New Peak May 11, 1937 This 1937 article gives schedules and airplane descriptions for Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. (TWA), Hanford Airlines, Braniff Airways, and United. It gives a schedule for the new Sky Hawk that...
4. Biplane Built in Topeka Biplane Built in Topeka Winter 2008 Short article describing the first successful flight of a Kansas-made airplane on September 2, 1911. The pilot was Albin K. Longren, who along with his brother, E. J. Longren, constructed the biplane they...
5. Goal in the Clouds Goal in the Clouds April 22, 1944 Need for workers in new aircraft manufacturing plant in Kansas City making Navy airplanes for the war effort.
6. Possum Trot Chronicles: Clarence Melton's 'Houpisine' Was a Kansas City Original Possum Trot Chronicles: Clarence Melton's 'Houpisine' Was a Kansas City Original August 2000 Article about Clarence Melton and his home-made airplanes in the early 1910s -1920s, built and flown in the Kansas City area, including the 1923 "'Houpisine,' a contraction of 'Houpie' (slang for Model...
7. Show Me Missouri History: Celebrating the Century, Part 2 Show Me Missouri History: Celebrating the Century, Part 2 April 2000 Second installment of excerpts from a video project by the State Historical Society of Missouri on the history of Missouri in the 20th century dealing with the years 1918-41. Photos and description of...
8. The Connie Sets a Record The Connie Sets a Record September 29, 2007 Reflection by author on her career with United Press and her two-day press trip to promote Trans World Airlines' "The Constellation," nicknamed The Connie. Its maiden flight was February 1, 1946, from...
9. Top Designer Remakes Liberty Memorial Museum Top Designer Remakes Liberty Memorial Museum November 24, 2006 Article centers around Ralph Appelbaum of Ralph Appelbaum Associates who created the new World War I museum at the Liberty Memorial. Concerning the museum, "there are new displays of many of the museum's...
10. Vintage Voom! Fly Back in History at Missouri's Aviation Museums Vintage Voom! Fly Back in History at Missouri’s Aviation Museums Spring 2010 Article about four historic airplane museums in Missouri that run along Interstate-70, including the Airline History Museum in Kansas City. Three planes on display in the museum's hangar include the Super...