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GIVEAWAY TIME!

GIVEAWAY TIME! Win a copy of this beautiful coffee-table photo book, “Kelch Museum Antique Biplanes,” by Diedrich Dassenbrock! It’s a fully bound, glossy book showcasing

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Moving In…Slowly

We’re moving in…slowly! Before Wisconsin’s #stayathome order kicked in this week, we got some of our display engines out of storage and moved in to

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Eileen Vollic

“As I sat in the cockpit I felt quite at home, fear never entered my head and when I saw the earth recede as the

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How to Fly – 1934

Miss flying? If you can’t take to the skies for real, try the next best thing! Here’s a fun little How To Fly film from

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Powder Puff Derby 1930-31

What a lineup! The Powder Puff Derby at Long Beach, California circa 1930-31. Can you spot legendary aviatrix Pancho Barnes? At the archives in Kelch

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Fly American! 1933

Feeling a bit cooped up inside? Watch this promo video for American Airlines from 1933 and satisfy your airline travel blues! Kelch Aviation Museum is

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Sundays and Quarantines

Sundays (and quarantines) are great for building model airplanes! Here’s a lovely piece of cover art from the Junior Mechanics & Model Airplane News. Who

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“Women Come and Help!”

“Women Come and Help!” Anonymous artist, 1917. The 1910s, 20s, and 30s were the golden age of posters, and so many of them feature aviation!

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Women Aviators of the Allied Army

Those daring aviatrices! A news article from the Times Dispatch, November 1st 1914. Would women make up the next flying corps? The article mentions record-setting

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Hélène Dutrieu

Throwback Thursday, aviatrix edition! Here’s a photo of Belgian pilot Hélène Dutrieu, the “Girl Hawk”. In 1910 she reputedly became the first woman pilot to

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