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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. GAL102_221014_011.JPG: The Triumph of Technology
2. GAL102_221014_013.JPG: Boeing 247
3. GAL102_221014_014.JPG: Douglas DC-2
4. GAL102_221014_015.JPG: Boeing 307
5. GAL102_221014_017.JPG: Douglas DC-3
6. GAL102_221014_025.JPG: Yesterday's Airports of Tomorrow Today's airports are basically similar, but over the years airport designers have had some interesting ideas when planning for the future of air travel. From underground airports to floating fields in the ocean, these are some of their most radical ideas.
7. GAL102_221014_029.JPG: Why Don't Airports Look Like This? This is a 1935 model for an underground air terminal. After landing, aircraft would go underground to various levels for passengers, maintenance, and cargo loading. Connections to ground transportation are at the lowest level.
8. GAL102_221014_032.JPG: How Is This Similar to an Aircraft Carrier? This 1933 design would have given landplanes a place to make emergency or refueling stops while crossing the ocean. As on an aircraft carrier, touching down during bad weather would have been challenging. As aircraft fuel efficiency, speed, and range increased, the idea became obsolete.
9. GAL102_221014_035.JPG: What Kinds of Airplanes Could Use This Airport? In 1939 this airport was built on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. It was later used as a base for transcontinental flights and Pan American's trans-Pacific service.
10. GAL102_221014_038.JPG: What's the Challenge of Landing Here?
11. GAL102_221014_040.JPG: Could This Plan Work Today? This landing platform was proposed in 1929 for the Pennsylvania Railroad station in New York City. The downtown location was convenient, but why do you think it would not have worked? Compare this design to the more recent one.
12. GAL102_221014_042.JPG: How Can This Runway Be So Short? New technologies are making older designs for small inner-city airports relevant again. Can you tell why this idea from 1994 might work? (Notice the airplanes.)
13. GAL102_221014_045.JPG: Yesterday's Airports of Tomorrow Today's airports are basically similar, but over the years airport designers have had some interesting ideas when planning for the future of air travel. From underground airports to floating fields in the ocean, these are some of their most radical ideas.
14. GAL102_221014_047.JPG: Candler Field, Atlanta...
15. GAL102_221014_052.JPG: Union Air Terminal, Los Angeles...
16. GAL102_221014_054.JPG: National Airport, Washington DC ...
17. GAL102_221014_057.JPG: Earplugs, Anyone?
18. GAL102_221014_060.JPG: Making the Modern Airliner
19. GAL102_221014_063.JPG: What Makes an Airliner "Modern"?
20. GAL102_221014_066.JPG: The NACA's Legacy Today
21. GAL102_221014_068.JPG: Airfoils
22. GAL102_221014_070.JPG: Cowlings
23. GAL102_221014_072.JPG: The NACA's Legacy Today
24. GAL102_221014_075.JPG: Engine Placement
25. GAL102_221014_079.JPG: Publications
26. GAL102_221014_082.JPG: Pan American Airways
27. GAL102_221014_096.JPG: Note there's no men's room
28. GAL102_221014_097.JPG: Pan American Ticket Holder On June 28, 1939, Pan American presented this sterling silver ticket holder to William J. Eck for being the first paying passenger to cross the Atlantic by aircraft. He flew on the Boeing 314 Dixie Clipper.
29. GAL102_221014_104.JPG: Air Routes
30. GAL102_221014_105.JPG: 1930s Air Routes
31. GAL102_221014_106.JPG: 1940s Air Routes
32. GAL102_221014_108.JPG: 1950s Air Routes
33. GAL102_221014_109.JPG: 1960s Air Routes
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Description of Subject Matter: America by Air
November 17, 2007 – January 2, 2019
How did the first commercial airline companies get off the ground? How has the experience of air travel changed over the past century? How will the politics of today affect the way we fly tomorrow? These are some of the issues in the development of commercial air transport this gallery explores, while expanding on the history of air transportation from only a few years after the invention of powered flight to the commercial challenges and technical sophistication of the 21st-century jet age. Featuring seven complete airplanes, engines, and other objects, this exhibition focuses on the following time periods:
* The Early Years, 1914-1927
* Airline Expansion and Innovation, 1927-1941, featuring a Ford Tri-Motor and a Douglas DC-3, the most successful airliner of the 1930s.
* The Heyday of Propeller Airliners, 1941-1958, featuring a Douglas DC-7, the first airliner to provide nonstop coast-to-coast service.
* The Jet Age, 1958-Today, featuring the forward fuselage section of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Note: Visitors can enter from the second floor to view the cockpit.
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