These vintage photos show what air travel looked like between 1930s to 1950s

Air travel has changed greatly over the past century, from the early days of flight and the "golden age of travel", to modern-day airlines.

Through this photo collection, we travel through time to show you what air travel looked like from the 1930s to the 1950s.

While manned, heavier-than-air flight has been around since the early 1900s, it didn't really take off as a common endeavor for two decades. After WWI, the aviation industry really began to grow and many commercial airlines started operating.

The Contract Air Mail Act of 1925 (also known as the Kelly Act) directly contributed to the growth of airlines, and the Air Commerce Act of 1926 allowed the government to promote air commerce, establish airways, certify aircraft, pilots. Responsible for granting and issuing licences. and enforcing the rules.

Time shifts in aircraft flight from the "Golden Age of Travel" and the "Golden Age of Travel" to modern times.

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The years between World War I and World War II saw great advances in aircraft technology. Based on the founding work of Hugo Junkers during World War I and its adoption by American designer William Bushnell Stout and Soviet designer, it evolved from a low-strength biplane made of wood and fabric to a sleek, high-strength monoplane made of aluminum Airplane Andrei Tupolev.

After World War I, veteran fighter pilots were eager to show off their skills. Many American pilots became barnstormers, flying small towns across the country and demonstrating their flying abilities, as well as paying passengers for rides.

Eventually, the barnstormers split into more organized demonstrations. Air shows began across the country with air races, acrobatic stunts and feats of air superiority.

The wind race spurred the development of engines and airframes—for example, the Schneider Trophy led to a series of ever faster and sleeker monoplane designs culminating in the Supermarine S.6B.

With pilots competing for cash prizes, there was an incentive to move faster. Amelia Earhart was probably most famous on the barnstorming/air show circuit. She was also the first female pilot to achieve such records as crossing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Many aviation firsts took place during this period. Long-haul flights by pioneers such as Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Alcock and Brown, Charles Lindbergh and Amy Johnson showed a path that was soon followed by new commercial airlines.

Many of these new routes had some of the same facilities as modern runways, and the era also became the era of great flying boats such as the German Dornier Do Ax, the American Sikorsky S-42, and the British Short Empire, which could operate from any stretch. . With clear, calm water.

After World War II, commercial aviation grew rapidly, using mostly ex-military aircraft to transport people and goods. This growth was accelerated by the glut of heavy and super-heavy bomber airframes such as the B-29 and Lancaster that could be converted into commercial aircraft.

The DC-3 also made for easier and longer commercial flights. The first commercial jet aircraft to fly was the British de Havilland Comet.

By 1952, the British state airline BOAC had introduced the Comet into scheduled service. While a technical feat, the aircraft suffered a series of extreme public failures, due to the shape of the windows causing cracks due to metal fatigue.

Fatigue was caused by a cycle of cabin pressurization and depressurization and eventually led to the catastrophic failure of the aircraft's fuselage. By the time the problems were addressed, other jet airliner designs had already hit the skies.

On 15 September 1956, Aeroflot of the USSR became the first airline in the world to operate continuous regular jet services with the Tupolev Tu-104. The Boeing 707 and DC-8 set new levels of comfort, safety and passenger expectations, ushering in an era of large-scale commercial air travel known as the Jet Age.

In October 1947, Chuck Yeager took the rocket-powered Bell X-1 through the sound barrier. Although anecdotal evidence exists that some fighter pilots may have done so during combat dive-bombing ground targets, this was the first controlled, level flight to exceed the speed of sound.

Further barriers of distance fell in 1948 and 1952 with the first jet crossings of the Atlantic and the first nonstop flight to Australia.