Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

Untold stories from the history of aviation

Antonio Carnicero, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

As a child, I used to collect Brooke Bond Tea cards. The collection of cards released in 1972 went by the name “The History of Aviation” and I remember the story of flight was recounted in a series of individual cards each one featuring a famous and important aircraft. Card number one was about the Montgolfier…