Nostalgia & History > for those who like airplanes

Pop took this photograph in about 1926 at the Abilene Texas airfield. Back then they didn't have "airports", they had "airfields" The caption written by someone at the bottom says "West Texas Air Transport". When this was taken, these bi-planes were cutting edge aviation technology. It's hard to believe that it has been only about eighty years since then. Just think of all the changes in aviation and in all types of transportation since then.

Con

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Here's an enlargement of that new pickup in the picture. A new Toyota or Honda truck it ain't.

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Or maybe just "fields". In SAT, on the Sunset Route, there is Randolph Field, a siding across the road from Randolph AFB. And the former Kelley AFB was once Kelly Field.

Thx for the round engines. I,too, love the smell of 100LL in the morning.

Very cool.

Where are the TSA metal detectors?

Good thing they didn't call it Texas West ...



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