Flying the Yangtze Gorges
Photo of the Yangtze Gorges looking over the tail of one of CNAC’s Loening Air Yachts, early 1930s
Month: December 2010
What was CNAC?
CNAC was the China National Aviation Corporation, a civil airline partnership between Pan American Airways and the Chinese Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-...
CNAC travel brochure, circa 1935
Colorful cover of the airline's travel brochure, middle 1930s, featuring the Douglas Dolphin
CNAC on the cover of Fortune Magazine
“CNAC is the China National Aviation Corporation. It is one of those peculiar enterprises whose capital value in dollars and cents might barely equ...
The Future Revealed Itself…
The people in this story knew as much about tomorrow as we do today. Which is to say, very little. The future revealed itself to them the same way it reveals it...
First Flight Shanghai-Canton
A beautiful and colorful first flight cover commemorating the first airmail service from Shanghai to Canton, signed by CNAC pilot Robert Gast.