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F-22 4195 first flight 03-14-2012 Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Marietta, Ga. Lockheed Martin Photography by Thinh D. Nguyen. Via Lockheed Martin
Hubbard eventually logged 350,000 air miles carrying mail between Victoria and Seattle. LINK to a photo of Boeing and Hubbard in 1919 - www.newspapers.com/clip/94409465/boeing-and-hubbard-from-...
Hubbard Air Transport (HAT) was founded by Edward “Eddie” Hubbard in 1920 to operate mail services out of Seattle. Hubbard sold his share of HAT to Vernon C. Gorst in 1927, who renames it the Seattle-Victoria Air Mail Line, a title it will keep until July 1928 when chief pilot Percy Barnes purchases half interest and it is renamed Northwest Air Service. The first international air service continues until 31 December 1935.
Eddie Hubbard formed his own company and made a successful bid to carry mail from Seattle to Victoria. He began flying between the two cities on Oct 15, 1920, carrying from mail which was put on ships in Victoria for Hawaii, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and Oriental ports. He also picked up U.S. mail that arrived in Victoria from the Far East. This service lasted until 1937.
Clipped from - The Hastings Daily Tribune newspaper - Hastings, Nebraska - 19 December 1928. FIRST AIRMAIL MAN DIES AT SALT LAKE SALT LAKE CITY - Utah - Dec 19 —U.P. — Edward Hubbard, 39 the first airmail man died here last night after an operation. Learning to fly In 1913 at Seattle, Hubbard was one of the country’s real aviation pioneers. In 1920 he contracted with the Post Office department to carry mail between Seattle and Victoria, B. C. That was the first time mail was carried by air. Hubbard flew the mail himself for several years - Hubbard was one of the organizers with William E. Boeing of Seattle of the Bern Air Transport Inc. He was made a vice president and secured for his firm the contract for the first airmail line between San Francisco and Chicago.
Edward "Eddie" Hubbard
(b. 3 January 1889 in San Francisco, California, USA - d. 28 December 1928 at age 39 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
Clipped from - The Victoria Daily Times newspaper - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - 15 October 1920 - Many citizens took the advantage of the Invitation extended through Postmaster Bishop this afternoon to mail to friends in Seattle letters of congratulation on the initiation of the Seattle-Victoria Aerial Mail Service, inaugurated by Pilot Hubbard. There were 250 letters stamped "Aeroplane Service," (Airplane - Service) including message from Lieut-Governor Prior to the Governor of Washington.
Clipped from - Vancouver Daily World newspaper - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 16 Oct 1920 - On his return trip Hubbard took 250 letters from Victoria for postage in the U.S.A. In this consignment is a letter from his honor, the lieutenant-governor, to the governor of the state of Washington and many communications from immigration officials here to their department at Washington, D. C. Postmaster Bishop, of Victoria, sent a letter of congratulation to Postmaster Battle, at Seattle, tendering his appreciation of the new service instituted. Stamp collectors in Victoria made a hey-day of the first international mail flight, many going to the trouble of stamping their letters with specially designed marks. Indicating the importance of the event.
Victoria, B.C. Postmaster Harry Freake Bishop
(b. 17 September 1857 in Portsmouth, Portsmouth Unitary Authority, Hampshire, England - d. 28 September 1944 at age 87 in Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada) - he served as Postmaster at Victoria, B.C. from - 2 July 1944 to 1928) LINK to his obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/94407216/obituary-for-harry-freak...
Seattle, Washington Postmaster - Edgar M. Battle
(b. 30 May 1856 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA - d. 30 December 1940 aged 84 in Seattle, King County, Washington, USA) - he never married - he was the Postmaster at Seattle from 1913 to 1923. LINK to his obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/94409800/obituary-for-edgar-battl...
Airbus A330-243 F-WWKU, MSN 1847 for Capital Airlines performing a Go-Around at TLS at the end of its maiden flight. She will be registered B-1043 on delivery. Capital Airlines is part of the HNA Group.
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male upset that female (much larger than either dad or it's brother) is not sharing the prey he brought to the nest.
An artist's rendering, of the famous Wright Brothers flight, inside the Visitor Center, Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
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The five-panel mural was curved, so I straightened in post processing as best as able.
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Wright Brothers National Memorial, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine.
Airbus A320-232-WL F-WWIE, MSN 7988 for Jetstar Pacific Airlines passing in front of the sun on a low approach at the end of its maiden flight. The dense clouds, carrying snow, obscured the sun enough to make it safe to look through the viewfinder of a DSLR. She will be registered VN-A577 after delivery.
Note the deployed RAT (Ram Air Turbine), on the left hand side of the belly fairing. Testing the RAT is part of the functionality checks conducted on each first flight of any Airbus planes. The landing gear is not extended and gives the aircraft a very elegant appearance.
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Maiden flight of the Airbus A320NEO A320-271N N901NK (MSN 6833) of Spirit Airlines. Seen here landing at Hamburg Finkenwerder XFW/EDHI. Powered by two Pratt & Whitney PW1127G-JM geared turbofan engines.
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Airbus A320NEO A320-251N F-WWDE (MSN 7776) for Air India on a test flight in TLS. Will be registered as VT-CIH after delivery. Note the deployed RAT (Ram Air Turbine), on the left hand side of the belly fairing. Testing the RAT is part of the functionality checks conducted on each first flight of any Airbus planes.
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Airbus A321-231-WL B-22616 TransAsia Airways (MSN 7375, test registration D-AZAG) on long final after its maiden flight, called F1 or A-Flight. Sadly this Taiwanese airline went bankrupt less than one month later, on 22 November 2016, along with its low cost subsidiary V-Air. This aircraft later became EI-FXT Aircastle in Ireland and is awaiting an airline to buy it. Now flies for Ural Airlines as VP-BSY.
TransAsia had to battle a bad image, tarnished by two crashes a year apart, including the last one, where an ATR suffered an engine failure and the crew shut down the wrong engine, stalling and crashing the aircraft in a river. The chilling dashcam footage captured by a car on a bridge of the crashing airliner went around the globe.
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I awoke to the sound of a dove cooing persistently outside my room. When I stepped outside, I saw this baby dove (squab) just below my window. Two adult doves were mere inches away on either side of this baby. It appeared to have just fledged (left its nest). Some of its earliest downy feathers were still present underneath the stronger feathers necessary for flight and survival. Its parents appeared to be present to offer crop milk (produced by both the female and the male) and protection as it made its way into its new world.
Departing Runway 24 to Munster, operating the inaugural flight of the new Stobart Air Flybe franchise. Stobart AIr is the new name for Aer Arann. This is the first of two ATR72s to be based at London Southend, which will also operate flights to Antwerp, Caen, Groningen, Maastricht and Rennes. Excellent to see the start of this new operation, I wish it every success!
A few hours before, this 737 took off for the first time from Renton(RNT) where it was built, preformed a test flight, and now will join other new 737s at BFI to be prepped for delivery around th world.
The 80th anniversary of the first Spitfire flight was honoured today with a fly past. It nearly didn't happen because of the weather but the Spitfire took off just under an hour later than planned. It was bitterly cold and I totally messed up my camera settings. The Spitfire was mostly quite far away, this is cropped and 'rescued' in processing.
Prestwick 18 March 1982. Scanned from my father's slide. Copyright Jim Cain.
MSN 601. The prototype Jetstream 31 on its first flight performs a flyby of the factory for the gathered workforce.
On December 17, 1903, at 10:30am at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, this airplane arose for a few seconds to make the first powered, heavier-than-air controlled flight in history. The first flight lasted 12 seconds and flew a distance of 120 feet. Orville Wright piloted the historic flight while his brother, Wilbur, observed. The brothers took three other flights that day, each flight lasting longer than the other with the final flight going a distance of 852 feet in 59 seconds. This flight was the culmination of a number of years of research on gliders.
Orville and Wilbur Wright's curiosity with flight began in 1878 when their father, Milton, gave them a rubber band powered toy helicopter. Although they were never formally educated, the self-taught engineers constantly experimented with kites and gliders. Bicycle shop owners by occupation, the brothers spent years designing, testing and redesigning their gliders and planes. After the successful flights of December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur continued to perfect their plane. In 1909 the Army Signal Corps purchased a Wright Flyer, creating the first military airplane. Although Wilbur passed away May 30, 1912, from typhoid fever, Orville remained an active promoter of aviation until his death on January 30, 1948.
The Air Age truly began with that historic flight on December 17, 1903. In 1908 the Wright Brothers designed the first military aircraft for the Army Signal Corps. Seven years later, in 1915, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) became the nation's leading aviation research organization, of which Orville was a member for 28 years. As the airplane became more aerodynamic and technically advanced, its uses expanded into many different directions. Military aircraft played significant roles in both World War I and World War II. The airplane made worldwide travel and exploration possible. Spaceflight would never have been realized without the pioneering achievements of the Wright Brothers.
Source: Library of Congress
Image Number: 65-H-611
Date: December 17, 1903
(Signage and a handful of people removed with generative AI)
"The Wrights made four flights from level ground near the base of the hill on December 17, 1903, in the Wright Flyer, following three years of gliding experiments from atop this and other nearby sand dunes. It is possible to walk along the actual routes of the four flights, with small monuments marking their starts and finishes. Two wooden sheds, based on historic photographs, recreate the world's first airplane hangar and the brothers' living quarters.
Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine. From 1900 to 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright came here from Dayton, Ohio, based on information from the U.S. Weather Bureau about the area's steady winds. They also valued the privacy provided by this location, which in the early twentieth century was remote from major population centers.
Authorized as Kill Devil Hill Monument on March 2, 1927, it was transferred from the War Department to the National Park Service on August 10, 1933. Congress renamed it and designated it a national memorial on December 4, 1953. As with all historic areas administered by the National Park Service, the national memorial was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. The memorial's visitor center, designed by Ehrman Mitchell and Romaldo Giurgola, was designated a National Historic Landmark on January 3, 2001. The memorial is co-managed with two other Outer Banks parks, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
The Wrights made four flights from level ground near the base of the hill on December 17, 1903, in the Wright Flyer, following three years of gliding experiments from atop this and other nearby sand dunes. It is possible to walk along the actual routes of the four flights, with small monuments marking their starts and finishes. Two wooden sheds, based on historic photographs, recreate the world's first airplane hangar and the brothers' living quarters." (Wikipedia)
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