Jet Age - Autumn 1955 (From the Brian Willer Collection)
This year, organizers of Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s in Plymouth, Mich., hauled in more brightwork and splashed more color than any past year with the Jet-Age Station Wagons class, and the July 29 concours crowd loved it.
Historic photos and postcards from Atlanta's iconic 1961 airport terminal.
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The TWA terminal at JFK airport was an icon of mid-century cool. Now it’s being reincarnated as a hotel.
Images of Atlanta's "Jet Age" terminal under construction from 1959 through 1961.
Taken by my late dad, Norman D. Zahn aboard an Eastern Airlines DC-8 enroute from Miami to San Juan in April, 1963.
In 1961 Atlanta opened the world's largest airport terminal, built specifically for the jet-age.
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After World War II and the toppling of the Nazi regime, the Soviets laid claim to much of Germany's highly-advanced metallurgy industry. In so doing they got a head start on the Cold War race for supersonic air superiority. Unwittingly, they also set in motion a larger, and largely forgotten, industrial revolution that shaped the second half of the 20th century and will shape the 21st. This is the story of the birth of the Jet Age — but it’s anchored firmly to the ground.
Photos of Atlanta's jet-age terminal just before opening day in 1961.
New York International Airport truly became a true Jet-Age airport as the first generation of Boeing, Douglas and Convair jet airlines entered service, starting in 1958
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First released as a 1963 model in late 1962, the Chrysler Turbine Car (its official name) was offered to a select group of customers on a trial-only basis. 55 were built, five as prototypes, the remainder as public test group loaners.
Britain's airport heritage has been sadly neglected, says Chris Beanland, but in New York mid-century gems have been rescued for future generations
Fins, chrome and performance were the ingredients of the extrovert American coupés and convertibles of the 50s. We’ve looked at the Jet Age highlights from RM’s Motor City auction on 26 July 2014 - and picked our favourites…
Eero Saarinen’s sloping, futuristic TWA terminal at JFK was built in 1962 in the height of the age of romantic air travel. The terminal, whose four vaulted concrete shell Saarinen’s chief associate architect claimed he modelled partly after a…
The next jet age is here. New breakthroughs from NASA and jet startups show that innovation is finally returning to air travel.
