Aeronautics, Commercial
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Air France Menu Collection
This collection contains menus from Air France flights between Paris and Los Angeles and between Paris and Buenos Aires during the 1980s.
Caroline JFK Campaign Aircraft
This collection details the technical life of President John F. Kennedy’s campaign aircraft, the Caroline, which was the first private aircraft used exclusively for campaigning by an American presidential candidate. The collection includes correspondence and notes kept by the Caroline’s second chief pilot, Captain Robert Griscom.
Hoffman-Russell Parachute Co. Corporate Records
The Hoffman-Russell Parachute Company was founded by James M. Russell and Major Edward L. Hoffman, both of whom helped design first parachute at McCook Flying Field in Dayton, Ohio, which was adopted by the Army Air Corps.
Manuscript Collection
The collection contains 92 manuscripts, written/compiled between the early twentieth century and early twenty-first century. These manuscripts range from television and movie scripts to flight logs, accident report, personal recollections, and biographies/memoirs. Subjects include (but are not limited to) early flight, World War I, World War II, women avioators, air ships, and flight testing.
I.E. Quastler Digitized Image Collection
355 35mm slides that were loaned for digitization in 2010. Most taken at Lindbergh Field, LAX and other California Airports.
Howard Waldorf Personal Papers
The Howard Waldorf Personal Papers containns materials relating to and/or written by Waldorf. He was a prominent aviation journalist in the San Francisco Bay area following his service as a test pilot in World War I.