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French Aviation Pioneers, 1908–1932: A Golden Age, Rescued from the Glass Plates
For a few extraordinary years before the First World War, France was the centre of the flying world. While the Wright brothers guarded their patents across the Atlantic, it was on French airfields — Issy-les-Moulineaux, Port-Aviation at Juvisy, the great meeting ground at Reims — that aviation became a public spectacle, a sport and an Read article
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Why Aviation History Still Matters in the Age of Instant Imagery
Aviation has never been more visible than it is today. Aircraft are photographed constantly—on flightlines, at airshows, through fences, from terminals, and across social media platforms that reward speed and novelty above all else. Images circulate instantly, stripped of context, date, provenance, and often accuracy. Yet aviation history has never been more vulnerable to distortion. Read article