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China's Wings

Stinson Detroiter

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Gregory / 10 Comments

The Stinson Detroiter was one of the two airplane types being operated by the China National Aviation Corporation at the opening of China’s Wings, when Wi...

China's Wings

The Loening Air Yacht, early 1930s

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Gregory / 0 Comment

The most useful commercial airplane in China in 1931

China's Wings

Flying the Yangtze Gorges

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Gregory / 0 Comment

Photo of the Yangtze Gorges looking over the tail of one of CNAC’s Loening Air Yachts, early 1930s

China's Wings

What was CNAC?

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Gregory / 50 Comments

CNAC was the China National Aviation Corporation, a civil airline partnership between Pan American Airways and the Chinese Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-...

China's Wings

CNAC travel brochure, circa 1935

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Gregory / 0 Comment

Colorful cover of the airline's travel brochure, middle 1930s, featuring the Douglas Dolphin

China's Wings

CNAC on the cover of Fortune Magazine

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Gregory / 0 Comment

  “CNAC is the China National Aviation Corporation. It is one of those peculiar enterprises whose capital value in dollars and cents might barely equ...

China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

The Future Revealed Itself…

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Gregory / 0 Comment

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...

China's Wings

First Flight Shanghai-Canton

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Gregory / 0 Comment

A beautiful and colorful first flight cover commemorating the first airmail service from Shanghai to Canton, signed by CNAC pilot Robert Gast.

China's Wings

See China by Plane

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Gregory / 4 Comments

China's Wings/Reading, Writing, and Research

What was, at the time, the world’s most exciting undertaking – flying

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Gregory / 1 Comment

The romance of those beautiful airplanes flying against the backdrop of 1930s China set a hook in my heart. Shirley’s stories and her father’s photos cracked op...

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Gregory Crouch
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