Smithsonian Magazine

In the 1930s Middle East, Airplanes Helped Open the Oil Fields

In 1930 from a Junkers F.13 leased by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (a forerunner of BP), the site of the first oil strike in the Middle East (1908), looks deserted. Today, its wells produce 5,000 ...
CNET

1930s aircraft an inspiration for 100 mpg cars

EcoMotors is concocting an engine with two pistons in one honking cylinder. It harks back to what plane engineers tinkered with in the 1930s. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...
Scary Mysteries on MSN

What Happened When a 1930s Pilot Saw Planes That Weren’t Invented Yet

In 1935, a Royal Air Force pilot flying over an abandoned airfield in Scotland reported something extraordinary. The derelict ...
The National Interest

In The 1930s, Russia Built The World’s First Flying Aircraft Carrier

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The bombers could allow the fighters to lift off with heavier weapons, while the fighters in turn could protect the bombers and even run their engines to speed along ...
Times Union

Vintage planes take flight at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome

At the corner of Stone Church and Norton Roads in a remote corner of Red Hook, the roar, buzzing and sometimes sputtering of 100-year-old airplanes preparing to take flight is a familiar sound on a ...