Aeroflot’s Ilyushin Il-12B SSSR-L1819 at Helsinki Airport in April 1956.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Ильюшин Ил-12 - РоссияRussia - 1946

Indian Airlines Corporation’s air hostess S.R. Bhargavi with one of the airline’s Douglas C-47s at Madras (now Chennai) on May 8, 1958. When the new IAC took over the operations of eight private airlines on August 1, 1953, it inherited 74 C-47s out of a fleet of about one hundred aeroplanes.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Douglas DC-3 / C-47 Skytrain/С-53 Skytrooper / Dakota - СШАUSA - 1935

Syrian Airways’ Douglas DC-3 YK-AAO at Beirut International Airport in the late 1950s.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Douglas DC-3 / C-47 Skytrain/С-53 Skytrooper / Dakota - СШАUSA - 1935

The mountains and glaciers between Greenland’s east coast and the ice-cap, photographed from Comet 4 G-APDE on October 9, 1958, at about 35,000ft at 64°N.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: De Havilland Comet 3 / 4 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1954

Clouds reflected in the wing of BOAC’s de Havilland Comet 4 G-APDE at 36,000ft between the Outer Hebrides and Keflavik on the first westbound North Atlantic Comet proving flight on October 9, 1958; scheduled services had begun on October 4.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: De Havilland Comet 3 / 4 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1954

New York Airways’ Vertol 44B N10104 taking off from the West 30th Street Heliport on Manhattan, New York, on October 11, 1958.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Piasecki H-21 Shawnee - СШАUSA - 1952

The first all-metal transport aeroplane to go into production was the four-passenger Junkers-F 13 which first flew on June 25, 1919. More than 320 were built and they saw wide-scale service in Europe, were used by pioneer airlines in South America, Eurasia and China, and as JL 6s on United States Post Office mail services. ABA - Swedish Air Lines’ second F 13 (c/n 715), originally S-AAAC, is seen here outside the Stockholm Technical Museum in July 1958. When delivered it almost certainly had the original-type tail surfaces.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Junkers F 13 - ГерманияGermany - 1919

Indian Airlines Corporation’s Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount V.768 VT-DIO on a test flight from Hurn on August 1, 1957, before delivery.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Vickers Viscount - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1948

Mont Blanc (15,781ft), the highest mountain in Europe, framed in the window of a Middle East Airlines Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Vickers Viscount - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1948

VLS’s Republic Seabee LN-PAK at Tereyen in Hardangerfjord in June 1956.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Republic RC-3 Seabee - СШАUSA - 1945

Mount McKinley (20,321ft), the highest mountain in North America, with a formidable glacier in the foreground. Mount McKinley was photographed from 23,000ft towards the end of a 16hr flight from Paris to Anchorage in Air France’s Lockheed L-1649A F-BHBR on January 26, 1958, on the airline’s first proving flight for the Paris-Anchorage-Tokyo polar route.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Lockheed Starliner L-1649 - СШАUSA - 1956