The new movie "Planes" by Pixar and Disney (in theaters Aug 9th) has a lot of airplane characters, and here are the ones from Disney's website

Dusty is a cropdusting plane who dreams of competing in a famous aerial race. The problem? He is hopelessly afraid of heights. With the support of his mentor Skipper and a host of new friends, Dusty sets off to make his dreams come true.



Much better storyline in the French trailer

http://movies.disney.com/images/ripslinger-4d8cae2f1dc7c4b6d71811ef?list=4d8cea34a730f5111655279f and http://movies.disney.com/images/dusty-voice-of-dane-cook-4d8cac8ba8543d84e491e558?list=4d8ce8c5f32c9e81963841d6 for the galleries of these characters with a description of each

Advertising through the 30's, 40's and 50's

A lot of issues being addressed in these ads, blimps, women drivers, war ration gasoline, and Disney advertising for a gas company. 

Glen made a scrapbook in 1939, just before graduating high school and enlisting in the Army or Air Force, he never saw action overseas, but fixed a hell of a lot of airplanes... coincidentally his passion as you'll see from some of his scrap book.

Above, the Zeppelin Hindenburg flying over New York on her maiden voyage

Above, the Airacuda... cool name! Never heard of it before, looks effin cool

Lastly, here are a few photos of Glen, motorcyclist, member of the High Boots MC, WW2 airplane mechanic (busted his leg getting hit by a car when pushing his motorcycle, so had to wear a thigh to ankle cast for 18 months. Have no idea how he kept from cutting that off after a month or two. He made a sidecar for his motorcycle so he could be mobile, as his cast wouldn't allow him to drive a car) due to the leg damage, he wasn't sent out of CONUS