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| Date: | 09 11 1955 |
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| Description: | The crowd at "Air Progress Day," an air show sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A barnstorming pilot and curious onlookers at a field on the outskirts of Waukesha that served as a primitive airport. Technically, the term barnstorming s... |
| Date: | 07 19 1931 |
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| Description: | The crowd at a free air show sponsored by the recently organized Waukesha Aviation Club in order to dedicate their new airport. In actuality, the club's ai... |
| Date: | 02 23 1985 |
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| Description: | Young Ben Schreiner of Slinger waiting near the Republic Airlines ticket counter at General Mitchell International Airport for a vacation flight to Florida... |
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| Description: | Howard Morey (left) was associated with most of the airports in Madison. Prior to World War II he managed Madison Municipal Airport and when the military t... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A Standard plane on the golf course of the Waukesha Moor Baths Hotel surrounded by curious onlookers. This landing was representative of the problems encou... |
| Date: | 03 17 1931 |
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| Description: | A scene at Curtiss-Wright Field in Milwaukee. Pictured are Arthur D. Gaspar, a Waukesha funeral director, and Paul Trier, the pilot of the Curtiss Thrush. ... |
| Date: | 05 21 1927 |
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| Description: | Lindbergh after his arrival in Paris on an inspection tour of Le Bourget airport. The man on Lindbergh's left with whom he is chatting is the British aviat... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The second Sheboygan airport was built by owner Anton Brotz, Sr. after a fire destroyed his first hangar. Brotz is photographed here with his son, Anton, J... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The groundbreaking ceremony for the new airport hangar at Wausau. Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, who can be seen on the right, (elevated above the crowd and w... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Herman "Fish" Salmon and his airplane, the "Cosmic Wind," at the 1947 National Air Races. This image is from the collection of Harry Bruno, the publicist f... |
| Date: | 05 26 1932 |
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| Description: | The repair shop of the Morey Airplane Company at Royal Airport in Madison. Only months after this picture was taken, Howard Morey lost both his hangar and ... |
| Date: | 05 05 1932 |
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| Description: | The U.S. airmail radio operator at Royal Airport in Madison. During the 1920s Madison had two airports: the Madison Airport (aka the North Street Airport) ... |
| Date: | 05 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Pilot Orland G. Corben accepts the winner's trophy at the Kroger Air Show in Madison from Kroger Manager D.V. McPeek. Also in the photograph is Tommy Hain... |
| Date: | 05 16 1959 |
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| Description: | A crowd watching a formation flight by military aircraft at a Truax Field air show. |
| Date: | 05 16 1959 |
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| Description: | A crowd waiting to get a glimpse inside a military jet on display at an air show at Truax Field. The air show was part of the Armed Forces Day celebration ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workmen overhauling the engine of a Wisconsin Central airplane in the airline hangar at Truax Field. Formerly known as Madison Municipal Airport, the field... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A Beechcraft 18 in the former Air Force hangar at Truax Field. This photograph was taken shortly after Wisconsin Central Airlines moved its headquarters fr... |
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| Description: | Myrland's Sky Lodge, a vacation resort near Montello that boasted a private landing strip for pilots with small planes. The Piper Vagabond in the foregroun... |
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| Description: | The real flying nun, Sister Mary Aquinas Kinskey, arriving at Sheboygan County Airport with two Franciscan sisters in a Cherokee C airplane. Sister Mary Aq... |
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