Sky High
A online exhibit marking the centennial of aviation drawn from the picture collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison libraries.
The Sky High exhibit is divided into eight topical galleries of images from the Wisconsin Historical Images database. Click a gallery title to view the images.
In order to perform specific Aviation related searches, visit Wisconsin Historical Images.
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Pre-World War I images of the Wright Brothers, Wright Flyers in Wisconsin, and other early airplanes in Wisconsin
1903 Wright Flyer fabric...the Fort Myer trials... General Billy Mitchell's introduction to aviation....Wilbur Wright in Italy...A.P. Warner, Wisconsin's first aviator, and Carl Bates, first aviator in Wisconsin...Wright and Curtiss planes on exhibition...Farnum Fish...Calbraith Perry Rodgers and the "Vin Fiz"...Jesse Brabazon of Delavan and the "Vin Fiz" John Schwister and the Minnesota-Badger. |
Aviators from Wisconsin and elsewhere who set records for racing or long distance flying: Navy NC-4 across the Atlantic...Jack Vilas and Lake Michigan...Ford Air Reliability Tours...Charles A. Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic ...Lester Maitland from California to Hawaii...Clyde Allen Lee's tragic crossing ...Howard Hughes...Beryl Markham...Jacqueline Cochrane...."Wrong Way" Corrigan...the National Air Races and "Fish" Salmon and Steve Wittman of Wisconsin.
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Extracts from the scrapbook of John G. Kaminski, a pioneer aviator from Milwaukee
Training at the Glenn Curtiss Aviation School at North Island...Amphibious airplane development...Lincoln Beachey...Exhibition flying.in Wisconsin, Ohio, and North Carolina. |
How airpower changed the nature of war from Billy Mitchell to Vietnam: World War I planes and observation balloons...Aviation training...Wisconsin's World War I Ace...Billy Mitchell and the Ostfriesland...Glenn Martin Richard I. Bong, World War II Ace of Aces...World War II planes...Wisconsin actors in aviation flicks (Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, Fredric March, Orson Welles)...Dickey Chapelle's covers the Pacific Theatre and World War II and Vietnam War...Helicopters. |
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A flying tour around Wisconsin. |
Wisconsin airplane builders and airlines that served the Badger State: Alfred Lawson of Milwaukee and Green Bay...Tom Hamilton's Metal Planes and Propellers...Invincible Center-Wing of Manitowoc...Orland G. Corbens build sport planes in Madison....Northwest Airways and Northwest Airline Co. Kohler Aviation Co...Wisconsin Central Airlines and North Central Airlines...Trans World Airlines.... Airmail...Airline schedules. |
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Sport aviation and the people who love flying: Home builders...Air shows...Airplane models...Warren O'Brien and the Waukesha Aviation Club...Experimental Aviation Association |
Wisconsin Astronuats: Gemini and Apollo missions....Donald "Deke" Slayton...James A. Lovell... |
Acknowledgements: This exhibit would not be possible without the exhaustive research of Michael J. Goc in Forward in Flight: The History of Aviation in Wisconsin, a Sesquicentennial publication of the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame.
Comments, photographic donations, or assistance in airplane identification Carolyn.Mattern@wisconsinhistory.org
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