Let's see some aviators

[jthorst75]

A beautiful set, all individual cards that make up this cutaway of the Empire Flying Boat. I have another set unframed. They're British so I rarely see them come up for sale as a set. The framing makes this set the only way to appreciate it.

[OutsiderSubtype]

This is a PSA Type 1 of Amelia Earhart in Italy.

The person to her left is Italo Balbo, also an aviation pioneer of a sort.

[Peter_Spaeth]

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U.S.S. Lexington in the late 1930s.



According to the print material on the back, this image is from a Fleet Week event in Hawaii. The image ran with newspaper stories about Amelia Earhart's disappearance because the Lexington was involved in the search for her plane.

The Lexington was sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942.

[quinnsryche]

What, no greatest fighter pilot of all time?? Baron Manfred Von Richthofen - The Red Baron. 80 confirmed victories in the First World War.

[brian1961]

Originally Posted by quinnsryche

What, no greatest fighter pilot of all time?? Baron Manfred Von Richthofen - The Red Baron. 80 confirmed victories in the First World War.

Excuse me, Tony, but Baron von Richthofen was the greatest fighter pilot of World War I, not of all time. If we're discussing all time, that "title" must go to the German WWII ace of all aces, Erich Hartmann, who shot down the staggering total of 352 Allied aircraft. He was incredibly gifted and skilled. He admittedly shot down many Russian aircraft being flown by inexperienced pilots, but the same could be said for most of the aces with a high number of kills.

I seriously doubt there are any trading cards of Bubi Hartmann, but who cares? --- Brian Powell