Seventy Flights in Ninety Minutes, Phoenix by D. Bryon Darby.

Check out more work from Fraction Magazine’s 50th Anniversary Issue.

Untitled (Glass on Plane) by William Eggleston.

American Airlines New 747 Coach Lounge, 1971. 

Looks like a few things have changed. 

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(Source: flickr.com)

Sightseeing Over New York (1949) by Bernard Hoffman.

Aerial view of a DC-4 passenger plane flying over midtown Manhattan by Margaret Bourke-White.

Crossing the Pond by Nick DeWolf.

I just became aware of this project on Flickr when I saw a post on A Continuous Lean. Nick DeWolf carried a camera around with him everywhere during his lifetime (1928 - 2006) and took photos of nearly everything. His son-in-law Steve Lundeen is digitizing all of DeWolf’s work and posting it to Flickr. Currently there are over 50,000 images and counting.

Above is a photograph from May of 1959 on a flight from New York City to Copenhagen, Denmark.

Flyby by Philip Anema.

Flyby by Philip Anema.

Mirror Wars by Vasili Chiginsky.

13th Witness.

Jet Man by Bruno Brokken.

Did you know the U.S. government declassified information from the 1950s this year that included this super secret A-12 spy plane prototype that was housed at Area 51 in Nevada? 

Nearly undetectable to radar, the A-12 could fly at 2,200 miles (3,540 kilometers) an hour—fast enough to cross the continental U.S. in 70 minutes. From 90,000 feet (27,400 meters), the plane’s cameras could capture foot-long (0.3-meter-long) objects on the ground below.

So cool.

Twisting Around by Tony Babcock.