By Air

Linton Wells (1893-1976).
Around the World in Twenty-Eight Days.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926.

The present work is Wells’ account of his record-setting circumnavigation of the globe with Edward Steptoe Evans.

Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
The First Air Voyage in America: The Times, the Place, and the People of the Blanchard Balloon Voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury, Together with a Facsimile Reprinting of the Journal of My Forty-fifth Ascension and the First in America.  Philadelphia: The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1943.

John Mackenzie Bacon (1846-1904).
By Land and Sky. London, Isbister and Company Limited; Philadelphia:  J.B. Lippincott Company, 1901.

Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-1974).
"We," by Charles A. Lindbergh; the Famous Flier's Own Story of his Life and his Transatlantic Flight, Together with his Views on the Future of Aviation.  New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.

Lindbergh was the first aviator to cross the Atlantic alone.

Walter Wellman (1858-1934).
The Aerial Age: A Thousand Miles by Airship over the Atlantic Ocean; Airship Voyages over the Polar Sea; the Past, the Present and the Future of Aerial Navigation. New York:  A.R. Keller & Co., 1911.

Life Magazine. [Chicago: Time Inc.] July 19. 1937. Vol. 3. No. 3.

The popular press kept its readers abreast of current developments in aviation, as indicated by this article featuring a log of Amelia Earhart’s last stunt flight.


Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She disappeared over the pacific while trying to circumnavigate the globe.