Above the Clouds
When my father depicted flying, he didn’t seem to view it as the safest way to travel.
There also seemed to be some fascination with flying among other branches of the Armed Services. The Air Force had been formed less than a decade before in 1947, although an Aeronautical Division of the U.S. Army dates back to 1907, just four years after the Wright Brothers took their historic flight.
Still, I think these two cartoons are more inspired by the competition among various branches of the service and how some of them looked down (pun intended) on the others.
