Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 0 intro gettyimages 1091369928 t2 The age of piston-engine air travel still exists today, but its golden era was the 1920s to ...

Before jets, before GPS, crossing the Atlantic by air in the 1930s was a gamble with survival. Flying in fragile airliners with limited range, passengers and crews faced storms, freezing cabins, and ...