Aeronautics-General

Crowd of people surround biplane.

Portrait of Lieutenant John A. McCurdy with biplane, undated. Lieutenant McCurdy was from Kelly Field and directed the first landings of Army planes in Austin during World War I.

Austin, TEX: The space shuttle Columbia riding piggy-back atop a NASA 747, leaves Bergstrom AFB following an overnight fuel stop.

Browning Aerial Service instructors in the World War II War Training Service program, undated. The University Airport hangar in background was one of the first modern airport hangars erected in the Southwest.