Aviation History
![Kenneth Hunter makes repairs to the “City of Chicago” in mid-flight during their world record setting flight of 23 days.](http://aviator-sunglasses.net/cdn/shop/articles/Kenneth_Hunter_makes_repairs_to_the_City_of_Chicago_in_mid-flight.jpg?v=1722894420&width=619)
In 1930 four brothers worked together to set a world endurance record for flying an airplane non-stop for 553 hours, 41 minutes and 30 seconds in a 1927 Stinson SM-1 "Detroiter" aircraft.
Read more![A UH-1 helicopter on a landing pad in Vietnam](http://aviator-sunglasses.net/cdn/shop/articles/A_UH-1_helicopter_on_a_landing_pad_in_Vietnam.jpg?v=1722463736&width=396)
On Novmber 9, 1967, a rescue helicopter crew heard a call for help while on their way back to base. Tired, weary, and heading home, the crew decided it was more important to help their fellow soldi...
Read more![Lieutenant Byron Quinby Jones, Aviation Section, Signal Corps, United States Army.](http://aviator-sunglasses.net/cdn/shop/articles/Lieutenant_Byron_Quinby_Jones_Aviation_Section_Signal_Corps_United_States_Army..jpg?v=1721923711&width=550)
Byron Q. Jones Aviator and Inventor
Byron Quinby Jones was a major contributer to the begginings of the U.S. Air Force starting back in 1913. Among his many accomplishments were to be the first military pilot to stall an aircraft and...
Read more![The Freeman Field Mutiny 477th Bomb Group members in front of a B-25](http://aviator-sunglasses.net/cdn/shop/articles/The_Freeman_Field_Mutiny_477th_Bomb_Group_members_in_front_of_a_B-25.jpg?v=1721408182&width=660)
In 1945 a group of 101 African-American Officers challenged the "Separate But Equal" view of their base commander, resulting in the The Freeman Field Mutiny.
Read more![Lt. Lester J. Maitland, pilot, and Lt. Albert F. Hegenberger, navigator, chosen to successfully cross the Pacific to Hawaii](http://aviator-sunglasses.net/cdn/shop/articles/Hegenberger_and_Maitland_pilots_developing_instrument_flying.jpg?v=1715863150&width=2592)
A young aeronautical engineering US Army Air Corps pilot devised an ingenious system to guide aircraft down through inlement weather to a safe landing. His system was called the "Hegenberger System...
Read more![Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson, Aircraft Designer Extraordinaire](http://aviator-sunglasses.net/cdn/shop/articles/JOHNSON-Clarence-L.-Kelly.jpg?v=1709217315&width=1838)
Aviation history is replete with incredible men and women who brought to life the amazing world of aviation. Among them was an incredible aeronautical engineeer who designed and built some of the m...
Read more![Operation Baby Lift Lockheed C-5A Galaxy 68-0218 lifts off from Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam, 4 00 p.m., Friday, 4 April 1975.](http://aviator-sunglasses.net/cdn/shop/articles/Lockheed_C-5A_Galaxy_68-0218_lifts_off_from_Tan_Son_Nhut_Air_Base_South_Vietnam_4_00_p.m._Friday_4_April_1975..jpg?v=1712774059&width=604)
Operation Baby Lift was a humanitarian effort undertaken by the US government to save South Vietnamese orphans from the North Vietnamese. Like so many other government programs, this one did not en...
Read more![Mt. Everest as seen from the south.](http://aviator-sunglasses.net/cdn/shop/articles/Everest_as_seen_from_the_south..jpg?v=1712170176&width=604)
The History Of Mountaineering and Aviation
In 1933 a British Expedition to photograph Mount Everest from an airplane was undertaken to map the mountain to help determine a possible route to the summit. It required exceptional pilots and air...
Read more![The Montgolfier brothers first free flight balloon carrying a human being November 21, 1783.](http://aviator-sunglasses.net/cdn/shop/articles/Montgolfier_balloon.jpg?v=1710512229&width=1252)
A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's ornithopter he envisioned for manned flight. Leonardo da Vinci made the first real studies of flight in the 1480's. Da vinci had over 100 drawings that illust...
Read more![A Boeing 707 sitting on the tarmac belonging to SABENA Airlines in 1961](http://aviator-sunglasses.net/cdn/shop/articles/Boeing_707-329_OO-SJB_Sabena_Flight_548._Guy_Van_de_Merckt.jpg?v=1708697310&width=800)
The Boeing 707 was one of the first jet powered intercontinental aircraft, it had four engines and one of the most interesting features of the aircraft were it's swept wings and tail surfaces. Spec...
Read more![Sabrina Patricia Jackintell (FAI) sitting her Grob G102 Astir CS glider](http://aviator-sunglasses.net/cdn/shop/articles/Sabrina_Patricia_Jackintell_FAI.jpg?v=1708024030&width=592)
Sabrina Patricia Jackintell, World Record Holding Aviatrix
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways…Chardonnay in one hand…chocolate in the oth...
Read more![Buffalo Airways Lockheed L188 Electra aircraft in flight](http://aviator-sunglasses.net/cdn/shop/articles/Buffalo_Airways_Lockheed_L188_Electra_aircraft.jpg?v=1704987719&width=640)
This is an interesting story about an aircraft accident that occurred over the Amazon jungle and the sole survivor of that accident. The aircraft involved was a Peruvian airline Lockheed Electra L1...
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