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William Powell Lear, Sr.
A portrait of William P. Lear, Sr. (1902-1978), chairman of the board of Lear Jet Industries, Inc. An American inventor and businessman, Lear developed radio direction finders, autopilots, and the first fully automatic aircraft landing system. Lear also developed and marketed a line of panel-mounted radios for General Aviation. His "LearAvian" series of portable radios, which incorporated radio direction finder circuits as well as broadcast band coverage, were especially popular. Lear also developed the 8-track cartridge, which was an audio tape system popular in the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for founding the Lear Jet Corporation, which manufactured business jets in Wichita, Kansas. In 1990, Lear Jet was acquired by Bombardier Aerospace.
previewMartin and Osa Johnson
An informal portrait of Kansas explorers, authors, and naturalists, Martin Johnson, 1884-1937, and Osa Johnson, 1894-1953, posed by their airplane with native people in Borneo.
previewMartin and Osa Johnson
An informal portrait of Kansas naturalists and explorers, Martin Johnson, 1884-1937, and Osa Johnson, 1894-1953, posed on their airplane with two companions, and a half dozen native people on an unidentified shore in Borneo.
previewWalter Herschel Beech
Walter H. Beech (L), pilot and eventual founder of Beech Aircraft Company, and Brice H. Goldsborough, of the Pioneer Instrument Corp. and navigator, standing by a Travel Air built by the Travel Air Manufacturing Company out of Wichita, Kansas. They demonstrated the practicability of "blind flight" and won the 1926 Ford Reliability Tour. The Travel Air Manufacturing Company eventually merged with Curtiss-Wright, another airplane manufacturer, in 1929, and in 1932 Walter H. Beech left the company to form the Beech Aircraft Company.
previewAmelia Earhart
This is an informal photograph of pilot Amelia Earhart after her first solo flight in 1921. The image was copied from "Soaring Wings," which was written by her husband, George P. Putnam, and published in 1939 by Harcourt, Brace & Co. after her presumed death.
previewAmelia Earhart
This photograph shows aviator Amelia Earhart on a parade float at a homecoming parade in Atchison, Kansas. A native of Atchison, Kansas, Earhart spoke at Memorial Hall to a crowd of 3,500 people during her visit. Earhart set a record flying solo across the Atlantic in her Lockheed Vega. She made the 14-hour, 56-minute flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in May 1932. Earlier, she had been the first woman to cross the Atlantic as a passenger in a plane.
previewAmelia Earhart and Laura Ingalls
This photograph shows Amelia Earhart Putnam and Laura Houghtaling Ingalls, descending from a TWA "Sky Chief" airplane that stopped briefly at the municipal airport in Wichita, Kansas. The two female aviators were headed for Los Angeles, California.
previewClyde Cessna
This photograph shows a group of men including Clyde Cessna (4th from left) posing with the first plane built in Wichita. The image includes a description that reads "a part of the Beaver Boosters, Okla [Oklahoma]."
previewAmelia Earhart
This is an informal photograph of Amelia Earhart, 1897-1937. She is seated between two women on a parade float in Atchison, Kansas. The two women may be Barbara and Lorraine Hellener, daughters of the City Manager, Earl Hellener. Also visible are the float's driver, spectators, and parked automobiles along the city street. A native of Atchison, Earhart spoke at Memorial Hall to a crowd of 3,500 people during her visit. The parade was June 7, 1935.
previewClyde Cessna
An informal portrait of Clyde Cessna, shown standing near the propeller of his 1914 airplane, and a small group of men and boys in Burdett, Kansas.
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