Historic aviation

Aviator Art Smith races a “Baby Car” while on tour in Japan, ca. 1916.

Tokyo-Osaka-Tokyo Air Race, 1920.

50th Anniversary of Japan’s entry into the Universal Postal Union commemorative postcard, 1927.

Mitsubishi G1M1, c. 1933.

Aviator “Bud” Mars, Japan, c. 1911.

Japan Air Lines (JAL), c. 1955.

2nd Air Mail Flying Contest, Osaka-Kurume, 1920.

Kaishiki No. 1 biplane & Yamada dirigible, c. 1911.

Kaishiki No. 6 aeroplane, c. 1913.

Juichi Sakamoto, Pioneer Aviator, c. 1914.

Aviatrix Katherine Stinson in Japan, c. 1916.

“Hatsukaze” & “Kochikaze”, Tokyo-Paris-London-Rome, 1925.

Around-the-world flight: Tokyo-Paris, 1928.

First Airplane Flight in Japan, 1910

“Nippon” round-the-world flight, Aug.-Sept.,1939

“Kamikaze”, Tokyo-London World Record Flight, 1937.

Graf Zeppelin visits Tokyo, 1929.

First attempt to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean, 1931.

Aerial daredevil Art Smith barnstorming Japan, 1916-1917.